About the Book: The Secret Diary of Kasturba
THE STORY OF KASTURBA GANDHI AND WHAT IT MEANT TO BE THE WIFE OF MOHANDAS
KARAMCHAND GANDHI.
'I dont know what evil resides in me, he wrote to a friend. 'I have a streak of
cruelty in me that compels people to attempt the impossible in order to please.
He is the Mahatma, a man the world venerates as a prophet of peace. But for
Kastur, the child bride who married the boy next door, Mohandas was a sexually
driven, self-righteous and overbearing husband.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was sworn to poverty, celibacy and the cause of
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