The secret diary of Kasturba Adhar, Neelima Dalmia

He is the Mahatma, a man the world venerates as a prophetof peace. But for Kastur, the child bride who marriedthe boy next door, Mohandas was a sexually-driven, selfrighteous,and overbearing husband.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was sworn to poverty,celibacy and the cause for India's freedom; Kastur spentsixty-two years of her life, juggling the roles of a devotedwife, a satyagrahi and sacrificing mother, who was eclipsedbecause of a man who almost became God for India'smultitude. Gandhi was an intolerant father to Harilal, hiswayward son, driven to debauchery; Kasturba paid theprice for her son's unending misery.Kastur is long dead, but she lives on in the pages of herdiary.... Renowned author Neelima Dalmia Adhar laysit bare to tell the world what it meant to be KasturbaGandhi, wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -- in agripping tale of unconditional love, passion, sex, ecstasyand the ultimate liberation that every woman seeks.