APNewsBreak: Calif. event for Gandhi book canceled

04/01/11 HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK An educational organization has canceled an event planned for a Mahatma Gandhi biography that was banned in part of India after reviews hinted the father of the nation's independence had a homosexual relationship. The event, in honor of Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph Lelyveld's "Great Soul," was to have been hosted April 13 in Santa Clara, Calif., by the ...

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'I never wrote that Gandhi was bisexual'

04/06/11 Joseph Lelyveld, whose book on Mahatma Gandhi has infuriated many, tells Arthur J Pais how the controversy went viral.

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The meaning of peace

04/12/11 SHAWN GUST/Press Arun Gandhi, grandson of Indian civil rights activist Mahatma Gandhi, visits with attendees of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations 14th annual human rights banquet on Monday in Coeur d'Alene.

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