Sexual scandals, of Gandhi’s behaviour and practices

Salil Tripathi reviews the book Gandhi: Naked Ambition,

• This "is a curious book. It tells the West, jaded by sexual scandals, of Gandhi’s behaviour and practices that are meant to shock, but may have the unintended effect of making his politics appear less radical than it was. And it tells India an aspect of Gandhi’s life it already knows but doesn’t talk about in public, a possible consequence of which would be to arouse nationalists to call for a ban on the book (which is always a bad idea), or to dismiss Gandhi’s importance, now that a British historian has laid all out in the open."