“We shall no longer be man and wife,” he apparently told Kasturba. She had understood that as a faithful Hindu wife, she would have to blindly follow in the footsteps of her husband, no matter how much it violated her sensibilities.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was sworn to poverty, celibacy and the cause for India’s freedom; Kastur spent 62 years of her life juggling the roles of a devoted wife, a ‘satyagrahi’ and sacrificing mother who was eclipsed because of a man who almost became God for India’s multitude.
Gandhi was an intolerant father to Harilal, his wayword son, driven to debauchery; Kasturba paid the price for her son’s unending misery, the book claims.
The book, published by Tranquebar Press, tries to tell the world what it meant to Kasturba to be wife of Mahatma Gandhi.
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