The Gandhi, Mahatma overshadowed

Named ‘Kastur’ after the scent the world knows as musk, she was the youngest of three siblings in a wealthy family of Kapadias who had well established overseas business in textiles, grain and cotton.

Known to the world as Kasturba, wife of a man the world venerated as a prophet of peace, for Kastur the child bride who married the boy next door, Mohandas was self righteous and overbearing husband, says a new book “The Secret Diary of Kasturba”, an imaginary chronicle of the life of Kasturba by Neelima Dalmia Adhar.

Historical facts form the backof this book but there was “no secret diary” maintained by Kasturba”, says Adhar.