Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ("Mahatma" is an honorific, meaning "Great Soul") was born in 1869 into a family of the merchant/administrative caste. He became a lawyer, studying for three years in ...

In a sense, “Gandhi” is a gloss on its subject’s life rather than a conventional biography, but there is nothing abbreviated about the book.

Joseph Lelyveld, a former executive editor of The New York Times, has written a biography of Mohandas Gandhi called Great Soul. It doesn't seem like Lelyveld set out to pen a hatchet job--The Wall ...

In the second part of the planned two-volume biography, Guha will write about Gandhi's 33 years in India, until his assassination by a Hindu nationalist in 1948.

New biography explains Gandhi's successes, failures A refreshing and incisive account of a British-trained Indian lawyer who became a world-famous hero of the nonviolence movement.

Wednesday marks 150 years since Mahatma Gandhi's birth. NPR sat down with biographer Ramachandra Guha and discussed the Indian leader's legacy.

In our review, Kirsch writes, ‘Lelyveld has denied that he meant to characterize them as lovers, and his book quotes one Gandhi scholar to the effect that their relationship was ‘’’clearly ...

Author Joseph Lelyveld, former executive editor of The New York Times, is also notable for instigating a significant uproar surrounding his new Mohandas Gandhi biography Great Soul. When reviews ...

The book itself hasn't been released in India yet, but politicians are reacting to a review that highlighted passages suggesting Gandhi may have been bisexual.