Tagging Mahatma Gandhi as "GAY"... Who gave them such a right?

There is no need to even discuss such things as it increases only curiosity for the book.
Thanks for referral, Darshana.

MS DARSHNA MUST BE ACQUAINTED WITH THE FACTS THAT FEW ROSE DOESNOT HAVE THORNS. WITH A VIEW TO BE POPULAR, ONE MUST NOT SPLIT ON THE SPIRITUAL FIRE...OTHERWISE THAT WILL BE BURNT TO ASHES...."HE, WHO IS BORN FIRE NEVER FADES IN SUN"..

My advice, Darshana is to read the book first, see in what context the subject has been mentioned and then make a judgement. 
I think Mahatma Gandhi was too great a person for such dirt to stick to his character and I think if such a suggestion was made to his face he would simply have laughed at it. 
Why then must we then make such an issue out of it? 
By even discussing the subject aren't we giving it much more importance than it deserves?  

I think the  writer has tagged Mahatma Gandhi as gay and written an book just to get popularity and people should attract towards his book.Today people do lots of things to get just a popularity.

He is a biased writer to gain something or he may be induced to write like that about our father of our nation. It is sheer nonsense and he can not get any benefits out of this useless writings about Gandhi Ji. Thanks for the referral Ms.Darshana.

Hi Darshana! Greeting of the day,  Gandhi Ji, The name is somthing like people start feeling respect about the name itself, we can imagine what this person was when he was alive.   But lets come to reality, sorry if it hurts u but Gandhi Ji was the main factor behind India Pakistan Partition, and bcoz of him only we got freedom so late.  what u think, Britishers were so afraid of Gandhi Ji's Ahimsa that they left our country? He used to say that if one slap on ur one chick give him the other one also.....u know the reason behind this statement?  Bcoz he was well aware of this that the hand which will move towards him, Shubhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh, Chandrasekhar ajad, Rajguru Sukhdev etc are there to cut off that hand before that reaches to Gandhi Ji. Otherwise such statement would never come.  I had studied "Maine Gandhi Ko Kyu Mara" by Nathuram Godse. If u get the book from somewhere Please study it once, U'll get how Great Gandhi Was.n number of fact r there who will force u to hate him.  And sorry if I hurt ur feeling but this is what i know bout Gandhi ji.

I know I have deviated from the topic of discussion. I dont know he was a gay or what but this is what he was.


  Thanks & Regards.

Just one question, has anybody read the book yet?

It is always better to ignore culprit as much as possible and once they cross limit and come in hands, delete them from the surface of earth..!! So, next will learn the lessons..!!

It is all a publicity gimmick and nothing else. The book will sell if something controversial is written. This we have seen well in the past. 

well said HK Prabahakr sir, Many persons write many things about many things.

The creature's love and hate are knee jerk reactions.They want all to stay within "creature comforts". 

When you say something it shows what you have in you. When in past days he would meet the gandhi ji. i dont think they had any worry what he is thinking about him. because the nation was not free and he might be continuously thinking about freedom and india. Purhaps at that time he had wrong thought about gandhi. but that time he can not say that because gandhi ji was there to answer him. but now he is saying anything wrong because he thought who is here to answer me. So we have to tell him, He is in big mistake. We all Indians are here to tell him that he is wrong. 

Timepass done by some people to gain monetarily.Today they have published about Mahatma. Tomorrow if you pay them they will write hidden facts about their mother.

The writing hurts me personally. The author has to take some more births to know about Indian philosophy and the experiment made by Gandhi for maintaining a revolutionary mind in peaceful manner. He is only example of his kind in this World. Let us counter the writings by gathering more evidences.

If controversy is not created the sell will go down so to be double sure create a controversy there is nothing unusual about it.  

Gandhi has always been a factor of controversy in India's freedom. People like to hear what they have not heard before, this is also one of those things and does not hold any connection to his work or share in freedom. This is something you hear and forget and not make an issue of.

Whatever it is, but we should not blaim the one who is no more in this world.

Ok
Let me see it from a different angle
Has the author used the word "gay"?or are we as readers extending a thought ?Are our creative juices and imagination overflowing?
and as someone rightly said a persons personal preferences are no bodies business.
Third...if the Mahatma was alive he would have had a hearty laugh...for here was a man who had the guts and the courage and the moral strength to talk about sexuality and his personal preferences.I wonder if anyone in todays"modern " world and thought has that kind of moral strength to speak the truth.
For me this kind of messages are retrograde to put it mildly....an author says something and there is bloodshed.Read it ..like it keep it, believe it.If you dont like it throw it in the  waste bin and move on 
Ancient India was so open minded...why are we so farcical now?

History will always find new facts - some true, some lies but mostly half-truths. Gandhi has his own share of (more) achievements & (less) failures as a national leader & international icon. His personal choice of life has nothing to do with it. If certain facts (possibly half-true) comes along, its better to ignore and stop discussing beyonds a cup of tea.

I don't agree with this author, Mahatma Gandhi was a great person of all times and our father of our nation. This author I believe is spreading malice about a great leader of the masses.

You might have heard, "Dor se dekha unde ubal rahe the, pass jakar dekha ganje uchal rahe the". It goes true with historian/writers like these. They wants people to believe his half truth in the context of contemporary. He may be true about his observations but half truth are as good as lies. I think history based books should be read in the light of human error of perception and prejudice. Gandhi to me was undisputed in his era. He lead masses for things which showed his grit and determination to be called a Mahatma. I am proud of him as the father of our nation. Its pity that some people find it hard to praise Gandhi.   

I saw this article on Yahoo a few days ago and I left my comments there.  One can see my write up with the title - Mahathma Gandhi - A true leader" and posted it on indyarocks.com.  Visit this link for the write up http://www.indyarocks.com/blogs/blog_visiterview_main.php?id=183641 and also the comments.  Mahatma Gandhi was a towering personality nobody has the ability to correctly judge the personality.  It is the human tendency to take his own perception when he/she failed to assess something so does this writer.  An idiot looks the world in his own eyes as worse than his character.  At the same time, a great man weigh the world beyond the heights of his character.  It depends how you looks at the world.  The writer having failed to judge the personality tried to see the personality with his constricted view and wrote something nonsense.  We can conclude that the write up is his mirror image.  

These things are simply done to gain some mileage which will affect in the sale of the book,as they say that even bad publicity is a publicity.Citing a similar example Aussie cricketer adam gilchrist made some uncanny remarks in his book 'true colours' about sachin  later he apologized personally to tendulkar by calling him up.This has become a trend knowadays.
Moreover Gandhi or no gandhi we could have got the independence anyhow what he did was that he simply made the economic condition of the country such that they were bound to leave(british).Who cares whether he was a gay or goon.We indians always create a hype no matter what be it gandhi in politics or dhoni in cricket.
Finally who will make an attempt to even take an action when the powers to be are least bothered even to get his memoirs from abroad when it was in auction(which malaya finally brought back).People are in love with money they don't bother whoese photo we have got over it. 

Many persons write many things about many things.

It is best to ignore such writings, and let these be buried in sands of time.

Though, in essense, this is a blasphemy, people of India adopt Gandhian principle in exonerating such people who write whatever they think will add to their revenue.  The more we oppose, the greater the beneficiary he would be!  Therefore, unless and until we stop promoting him by blaming him, people will be even more curious to know what he wrote and they will spend money purchasing a copy!  

I didn`t agree with this writer, Gandhi was a great Person.

No one can say any one like that.

It really very disgusting rather than givining attention to someone great work & contribution towards society why we are wasting our precious time & energy to digging the unnecessary things. We shld thank hin that he has given us a vision otherwise we grew up as a slave just leave all such bullshit thoughts.
We shld remember Him for his contribution nor for his mistakes.

 controversialists breed popularity. Every individual has right of opinion and I think we should be able to live & ignore  such remarks in  such democracy. Albert Einstein,in his  tribute to Gandhi said"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as [Gandhi] ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.That's the fact that is alive in our hearts and that's the pride we have when we address him as Mahatma Gandhi....The  father of our nation... 

I do not think that writer is right. M. Gandhi was a great personality, it not easy to understand what he was thinking......That may be related to other matter. He had a great vision and thinking power....Just take one example he once said "customer is GOD" and today at 21 century that words are TRUE FACT.

Some people try to achieve their success only by amplyfing the faults of others. Their own religion says speak no ill of the dead because they cannot come and defend themselves. Such remarks are totally unwarranted and meant only to defame our country and its greatest leader.