As her diary traverses through the years in Porbandar, opposition from the Modh Bania community to Gandhi’s plans to go abroad for studies much against the community’s opposition to such ventures, his work in South Africa, Kastur writes of the horror that she was subjected to by Mohandas when she was told to clean not only own chamber pots every day but also extend the service to other residents whose pots had not been tended to or cleaned properly.
“The persistent putrid stink, the nasty gash on my wrist where Mohandas had grabbed me and dragged me to the gate…
Mohandas had become an abusive and cruel husband who had lost all regard for the one person he claimed to have loved the most. I felt suffocated and trapped,” Kastur wrote in the diary imagined by the author.
A bigger shock was yet to come. After she gave birth to their fourth child, Devdas, Mohandas told her that she will have to sleep in a separate bedroom.
