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100			_aAdhar, Neelima Dalmia _92492
245			_aThe secret diary of Kasturba
260			_bTranquebar Press _aNew Delhi _c2016
300			_a395 p.
365			_aINR _b699.00
520			_aDescription 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 for India's freedom; Kastur spent sixty-two years of her life, juggling the roles of a devoted wife, a satyagraha, and sacrificing mother, who was eclipse because of a man who almost became God for India'smultitude. Gandhi was an intolerant father to Harilal, his wayward son, driven to debauchery; Kasturba paid the price for her son's unending misery. Kastur is long dead, but she lives on in the pages of hereditary... Renowned author Neelima Dalmia Adhar lays it bare to tell the world what it meant to be Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -- in a gripping tale of unconditional love, passion, sex, ecstasy, and the ultimate liberation that every woman seeks
650			_aStatesmen's spouses _92677
650			_aGandhi, Kasturba _92678
650			_aGandhi, Mahatma _92595
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