Joseph Lelyveld, a former executive editor of The New York Times, has written a biography of Mohandas Gandhi called Great Soul. It doesn't seem like Lelyveld set out to pen a hatchet job--The Wall ...
Author Joseph Lelyveld, former executive editor of The New York Times, is also notable for instigating a significant uproar surrounding his new Mohandas Gandhi biography Great Soul. When reviews first ...
Yahoo: New Biography Suggests Gandhi May Not Have Been Such a Nice Guy
New Biography Suggests Gandhi May Not Have Been Such a Nice Guy
Mohandas Gandhi's latest biographer, Ramachandra Guha, often recounts what South Africans of Indian origin have told him: You gave us a barrister named Mr. Gandhi; we gave you a Mahatma (a Sanskrit ...
Los Angeles Times: In our pages: the controversial Gandhi biography ‘Great Soul’
Mohandas Gandhi said his life was his message. He left a vast trail of personal papers forbiographers to decipher that message. (His collected works add up to nearly 100 volumes.) He also wrote an ...
Joseph Lelyveld has written a generally admiring book about Mohandas Gandhi, the man credited with leading India to independence from Britain in 1947. Yet "Great Soul" also obligingly gives readers ...
A new book on Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi has sparked a furor in India, prompting at least one Indian state to propose banning it. The book itself hasn't been released in India yet, but politicians ...
New Delhi: A new biography of Mahatma Gandhi that sifts myths and legends from the real man with all his flaws and humanity, authored by his grandson Rajmohan Gandhi, was launched here Sunday evening ...