1.       MAHATMA GANDHI’S LETTERS ON BRAHMACHARYA, SEXUALITY AND LOVE

MK Gandhi was a compulsive letter writer. The most exciting portions of his writing ( and responses to those) concern his women associates. Mahatma Gandhi’s letters on Brhmacharya, Sexuality and Love deals with his cardinal principles of brahmacharya on par with satyagrah.

A definitve work on human relations, celibacy, sexuality and love, the book reads like a confessional on the scale of St. Augustin and Rousseau. It deals with controversial experiments in brahmacharya.

There were more tha a dozen women who came to be closely associated with Gandhi at one time or the other; that included Millie Polak, Nilla Cram Cook, Mirabehn, Sushila Nayyar and Manu Gandhi. This is his biography as well as life-storeis of all his associates. Not to be mixed are the chapters relating to Sarla Devi, whom he claimed to be his “Spiritual Wife” and failed romance of Mirabehn and Prithvi Singh Azad. Also to be found in the Appendix is the exciting story of his with ‘soul-mate’ Hermann Kalenbach, breaking entirely new grounds. Finally Gandhi comes out as a contemporary as well as the timeless mahapurush.

(a book by Girja Kumar. Born in 1925 at Dera Ghazi Khan (Pakistan), Girja Kumar is a veteran research scholar.Founder of the Sapru Library, he held many important positions including Chairman of Delhi Library Board and President of Indian Library. His book Brhmacharya,Gandhi and His Women Associates remained AP and Yahoo bestsellers for several months, his book Censorship and Education, Arrogance of Intellectual Power and The Book on Trial, Fundamentalism and Censorship in India were also received well. He was also associated with several national publications and wrote regularly for The Indian Express and The Week as a book critic.