Gandhi Used His Position To Sexually Exploit Young Women. The Way WE React To This Matters Even Today
“It is a fact. Gandhi had young women in his ashram, some of them still teenagers, one of them his own grand-niece [Manu Gandhi], sleep naked with him in his bed at night. This was an aspect of Gandhi that I had not read about before, and it surprised me at first. I was researching for my book ‘Sex and Power’ which looks at the history of sex and sexuality in India, and it was important for me to investigate this further.” writes Rita Banerji.
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Ben Hurling / October 25, 2013
Gandhi may be a great man. However, he was human too.
We treat Gandhi as almost a God. That is unfair to his legacy itslef.
We have taken away Gandhi’s humanity by ignoring his weaknesses. And by elevating him to the status of a human deity. Gandhi himself would not have wanted anything like that.
It is OK to shed some light his short comings.
Cheers!
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Javi / October 26, 2013
A bachelor’s life is a class breakfast, a flat sandwich for lunch, and a miserable dinner.
The naked fakir wanted to live forever.
Wives are young men’s mistresses,
They companions for middle age men,
They are old men’s nurses.
In vain without woman. ;)
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Yehiya / October 26, 2013
Mud sling to him.
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Bird / October 26, 2013
A little more than shortcomings Ben! He was a filthy peverted paedophile.
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Norma Terrigno / May 13, 2017
OOps…one of his sons also raped his own daughter when she was just a child. Gandhi even wrote a letter to him which was found…
This chap was a sicko despite his political greatness. He was a perverted human being who should have known better and presented a model of decency to the world. Shame, shame….
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Spring Koha / October 28, 2013
Oh I say! I am getting confused….
‘He used his position’
‘his short comings’ ????? (so personal!)
Mahatma sounds like the Jimmy Savile of India (even Asia).
There’ll never be another Fakhir like him.
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I am Sri Lankan / October 25, 2013
Wow, Its Great to know Ghandi is an Ass Hold whom sleeping with his own Great Grand Daughter, what a Sin .. my goodness this is not acceptable by any humans. I simply thought they way he was dressing and implying Yoga ( another Budhist [Edited out] thing). Well this goes beyond doubt that Lord Buddha also did the same thing when he was Young Man. Own Nice? wow.
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Achintha Jayasinghe / October 25, 2013
You know your a idiot don’t you? Use your brain before you type. Yoga doesn’t have any connection over to Buddhism jeez.
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Javi / October 26, 2013
sorry honey boy “Tantric”(is a subset of Yoga) has and the final is penetration but no spillage (sexual bliss).
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Javi / October 26, 2013
Hinayana is paedophile Phew!
Mahayana (permission to marry) is Tantric bliss.
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Asanka Nanayakkara / October 25, 2013
He was a Hindu.. I cant see the connection between Buddhism and this. but of course I can see what your intentions are.. Buddhism is a great religion which need certain IQ level to understand it properly.. your assumptions on Buddha shows where you are standing and of course how primitive you are as a human being..
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I am no muslim / October 25, 2013
‘I am Sri Lankan [Muslim]’ Bugger is a jihadi.
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Javi / October 26, 2013
Right on target!
He wanted 4 wives like the lustful mussie’s to be young forever.
The stupid lustful muzzies don’t want to see that even the pharaohs
did not know what heaven looked like and decided to stay entombed for ever.
Life is a moment in time time!
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Rohan / October 26, 2013
“Buddhism is a great religion”
Is it a religion? Did the man, a Hindu which established this ‘religion’ want that to become a religion? Now, what is a ‘great religion’? Why does someone need certain level of IQ to understand this ‘religion’? Buddha preached for the simple people. If it is meant for people with high IQ, it is not meant for the people of Sri Lanka!
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David / October 26, 2013
Buddhism a religion without a God!!!
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Puma Punku / October 27, 2013
Rohan: You’re right on target.
These Racists want to keep on saying to them “Buddhism is a great religion” stuff every time they find it difficult for them to prove it great.
Look at the state of Buddhism today. Its none other than but anything great. Gnanasara is a great proof of that.Not only Gnaney, the whole lot is rotting from within….
So, let them say to thmeselves that its great or whatever…we can see the Fruits of their calling it great….
Let them enjoy for a moment before they die…..
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Dr.Easwaran / October 26, 2013
Buddha was a Hindu prince, he gave up his materialistic world to seek salvation. He was perturbed by seeing disabled people, poverty and death. Buddhism is a great philosophy, It was King Asoka, a worrier king wanted salvation from his desire to get out of his crazy war madness. only after sacrificing many lives he felt war was futile. He to get salvation, read the Buddha’s teaching, ie; Buddhist philosophy. He who had helped this philosophy to be turned into a religion after 200 years from the time of death of Buddha. He who spread this as a religion to many parts of India, Afghanistan, Lanka, Burma, Indonesia, and far eastern countries. Most of these countries, have changed to Islam or reverted back to Hinduism. However, Buddha means man of wisdom. But these religion are being used by the fundamentalist to tarnish its image. Srilanka, Burma and Thailand Buddhists instead of upholding Dharmma, have been exhibiting intolerance against fellow humans.It is time for Buddhist to halt this decline. Asanka quoting from your comment “Buddhism is a great religion which need certain IQ level to understand it properly” Do you imply many monks in BBS, and Rajapkse clan have an IQ of that of a imbecile’s.
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Uthungan / October 26, 2013
Who knows if the Buddha regarded himself as a Hindu prince or not
because awareness is no different in the waking state than in the sleeping state.One can explain mechanically one’s wakeful state but does it mean that he can really say that he is awake.
Wouldn’t this apply to the Buddha too? How would he have known he has attained Buddha hood when he was also a human like the rest of us.Like any of us he too would have had a memory and if memory is knowledge,your feelings are also memory is it not? Because all feelings arise from it,is it not?
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David / October 27, 2013
Buddha enjoyed his life with young girls in the palace. He didn’t know the difference of poor & rich, getting old and death till he is 30. so you can imagine how wonderful life he could have spend in the palace. But Ghandi used girls for experiment to teach the world “self Control and mind control techniques. Ghandi is better than Buddha.
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Rationalist / October 26, 2013
We know howm the Sri Lanka Mind works! Even an Innocent relationship becomes a Sexual one to those who envy a high position attained by someone. This is known as ‘The Tall Poppy Syndrome’ where the envious ones want to cut down all the Tall Poppies to their own level!
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whywhy / October 26, 2013
Jacko must be spinning in the “NEVER LAND.”
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JimSofty / October 27, 2013
I think, Gandhi was a JAin. So, they stayed naked. They later began to wear a white piece of cloth.
I don’t think that he was pedophile or engaged in incest.
West is very good in accusing other countries because it is not there way.
In this case another stupid indian.
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PA♥One® / October 25, 2013
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” ER
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lal / October 25, 2013
So, the great holy hero of India was a dirty old man. Imagine what ordinary Indian politicians are upto!
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Dr.Easwaran / October 26, 2013
Politicians are humans but opportunist, where ever they are from and what ever their age. Good and Bad depends on the up bringing and chances offered to them. Weakness some time becomes dominant. Rare opportunity are never missed,they make use of it, since they are humans too, holy or not. who can blame them because nature always prey upon them. Are you a saint?
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aratai / October 25, 2013
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Things happen.
Gandhi was 16, his wife was 13. He raped his wife when his father was in death bed. I believe he admitted this……..
:-)
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Amarasiri / October 25, 2013
Atatai,
This is Hindu religious tradition.
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justice / October 25, 2013
Gandi did not compel/force any of those mentioned to sleep naked in his bed.
Ha did not have sexual relations with anyone with or without their consent.
All of them,like Parasuram,were free to leave the ashram.
He apparently was trying out an “experiment” to test his own sexuality.
An onlooker – Parasuram,and the author of this report find this wrong.
They are entitled to their opinions.
All great men have their own idiosyncracies.
This does not detract their greatness/fame
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shankar / October 26, 2013
“He apparently was trying out an “experiment” to test his own sexuality.” Justice,then he must be a nutcase.Dirty old man or nutcase,which do you prefer?You must admit he has to be one of the two.
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Javi / October 27, 2013
“.Dirty old man or nutcase,which do you prefer?”
He could have easily caught all the squirrels.
The most pious Sanyasi of India lives on a tree.
You never know the mystic north when you have a heart ache.
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Eric McClurg / December 5, 2015
“Trying out an experiment to test his own sexuality.”
I wonder if he found during his “experiment” that sex with minors was boring and dull?
Men don’t experiment having sex with things just to test our own sexuality. If that were the case we’d be having sex with light poles, jackets, socks, dogs, livestock, fat chicks and old grannies.
We have sex with what we find sexually attractive. And I figure he found minors sexually attractive.
“The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
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Silva / October 26, 2013
justice,
Gandhi must be a sex maniac-a very bad and desperate one too. He must also have suffered from that disease where ejaculation does not happen and hence constantly been plagued by “sex desires”. On one hand he has done an unparalleled service to liberate India and on the other used others to egotistically satiate his “perverted” sex desires. There is nothing to experiment about sex but to do it and feel the pleasure! This “experiment” story is really a cover up employed by MG to institutionalize his strange and extremist sex drives. The only issue here is that his actions have created affected and aggrieved parties. He does not deserve to be the “Godly” character people created for him but a lesser human who has done grate service to India but at the same time had excessive sex desires which were fulfilled by harming others. The real question that must be asked and answered is what was the best way he could have fulfilled his sex needs without affecting the lives of others because he must have been a prisoner to his own desires!
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Silva / October 26, 2013
sorry a typo, not “grate” but “great”
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Javi / October 27, 2013
” The real question that must be asked and answered”
Sanyasi my boy or solitary confinement.
“he has done an unparalleled service to liberate India”
SL’s did not fight but hid at TN.
2 million folk of Baharat lost their lives fighting as British Army from Brussels to Burma. Ceylonese from the north also fought for the Brits at Rangoon.
Now London was blitzed beyond recognition and needed the American hash and plan (many Pakistanis were transported to the north of England to run the industries like textile because there were no men after the war)
BTW Bose also fought but went into hiding as a wanted man.
So the independence just followed.
Try Ahimse now its a laugh as in practice. Life is by negotiation only.
Remember T.Gunas art: “Our challenge is to devise some arrangement which enables us to coexist if not in amity then at least in forbearance” Jawaharlal Nehru told Andre Malraux (Anti-Memoir).
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Fathima Fukushima / October 26, 2013
We always knew Ghandi as an immoral person. These things are not news. He sexually exploited Indian girls including Tamil girls.
He also had a sexual relationship with a German body builder, a man.
So much about India’s founder!!
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Javi / October 26, 2013
FooFoo the mutt
“So much about India’s founder!!”
Long before your pop could read the English language we called him the naked fakir as in almost every blog of mine on CT.
The day he got Om Tat Sat the belching farting muzzies ran under the rock having massacred 1.5 million Hindus who were unarmed and unwilling to fight because they were in Ahimsa mode.
Did the muzzies across the border ever win again yet the Muslims in India the 2nd largest in the world live in harmony in one of the most populace Hindu nations of the world?
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shankar / October 26, 2013
“He sexually exploited Indian girls including Tamil girls.”
he also sexually exploited Fathima A.K.A Lester’s mother.She was only 13 at that time and brought by her parents to Ghandhi’s ashram.They were shocked when ghandhi asked to perform an ‘sexperiment’ and grudgingly gave their consent but kept it a lifelong secret when they returned to srilanka.Ghandhi managed to control himself until he woke up early morning with a hard on that made him moan and groan to control.He used every ounce of his steely world reknowned willpower and was on the point of success until foolish fathima/lester senior innocently put her hand on his groin and asked whether he was okay.That was the straw that broke the camels back and even the great ghandhi succumbed to temptation.
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Javi / October 26, 2013
“her hand on his groin and asked whether he was okay.”
Whey Hey She got fizzy pop
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shankar / October 26, 2013
“got fizzy pop”
Fizzy pop with full cream milk.Better than sleeping with Morarji desai and getting morarji cola.
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Javi / October 27, 2013
Mori was auto get it right. never seen the mystic north?
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Silva / October 26, 2013
Fathima Fukushima,
“So much about India’s founder!!”
Lol! How much is it about Banana Republic’s founder, the MARA-the tsunami hora!? Haven’t you heard about lime kiln fiancé rights, sarong falling deaths and army “Gandhi Boys” doing Igillena Maluwo type stand and ejaculate on Tamil women? What about cunt riding double century by PC member of cunt regime?
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JimSofty / October 29, 2013
“So much about India’s founder!!
BS.
He did not find India. British were tired and did not know what to do with Indians. Because, Indians were attacking British. British did not want to leave India in humiliation.
So, they found this British – lover young Indian lawyer living in South Africa. That was Gandhi.
that is how British SAVED their AS# in India.
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The_ slanting_ rays_ of_ the_setting_ sun / October 26, 2013
So were Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela.
Most women drool over rich and powerful men anyway.
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Javi / October 26, 2013
“Most women drool over rich and powerful men anyway.”
You mean Like Cleopatra;Burrito
Bernard Shaw- Woman gods second mistake.
But can one do without her?
One cannot Love and be Wise.
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Fathima Fukushima / October 26, 2013
Only Tamil women.
They use them and call them grease devils!!
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Javi / October 26, 2013
FooFoo the Islamic stockbroker
“They use them and call them grease devils!!”
So it seems Bin Lardens Knickers not been for a shampoo as yet?
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shankar / October 26, 2013
“Only Tamil women.”
Like jackie kennedy and Wendy murdoch?
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Javi / October 26, 2013
Jinnah the father of Porkistan was offered the post of deputy PM of Baharat but the lustful man refused requesting for his fantasy land the partition Islam only. He married the richest woman in Baharat Miss Petit a Parse Zoroastrian.
The Arab crusaders had slaughtered and driven the Zoroastrians of Persia (presently called Iran) so some got refuge at Gujarat from the Hindu king. The Gujarati’s took Islam to Indonesia but not by the sword like the Arabs. The maximum no of Muslims live in Indonesia but not Porkistan, Iran, Saudi or anywhere else.
The rich always “run”; the rich always win; the rich always have power; the rich always get the best; and, most of all, the rich always break their promises to the poor fools who voted for them. LOL
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YoungSriLankan / October 26, 2013
I’ve read it in 2 of his biographies. He did so to refrain his carnal desires. Not only he slept in the same bed with them but made them give him massages if I remember correctly. But he never had any sort of sexual relationship with any of the girls. & it was sort of self disciplinary. Like making sure under whatever condition or catalyst not to trek on the wrong path
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Bird / October 26, 2013
So that makes it acceptable?? Read the article. Did he ever think about what effect his ‘experiments’ were having on those young women? If he was alive today he would be arrested (except in Lanka where he would be made an MP).
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shankar / October 26, 2013
“But he never had any sort of sexual relationship with any of the girls” Viagra was not available.
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Anthonio / October 27, 2013
do not be ebvious he is a smart guy,, how lucky and yumy ,yumy..
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Betsy / October 27, 2013
Such lowly messages to ease of their frustrations ,look into our country, women cant walk on the road ,many awaiting to rape,and an pass filthy comments,and all we do is insulting and pointing fingers to others,passing remarks to hurt the minorities
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JimSofty / October 27, 2013
When British came to India they ssw these Maharajas and their villages of people who were working for the Maharaja and called that Slavery and banned it. that made so many people without work and food.
British thought that so many women working in the Ottoman – emperor’s palace and took that to be his harem.
Now, in this case, Jains lived in India and they stayed naked. Mahatham gandhi was a Jain and stayed naked when he was his home.
All these idiots create stories out of this.
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Javi / October 28, 2013
“Now, in this case, Jains lived in India and they stayed naked. Mahatham gandhi was a Jain and stayed naked when he was his home.”
It was a schedule caste who taught the Brits Sanskrit (the language of the administrator Brahmins). So I don’t expect you to know who the jains were or what they wore. But I can confirm you are another amude boy convert to Christianity.
Quoting Gibran (Lebanese who wrote at Paris (the land of romance like Picasso of Spain)
“The child Jesus”(you know he was a Jew :mine) My life was a tale of woe; now it is become a joyful. And it will be turned to bliss, for the arms of the child have enfolded my heart and embraced my soul.
Jim the Dim you have got bollocks but an eunuch troll at present. Robot with a humourless dream is Fanaticism.
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JimSofty / October 28, 2013
Picasso was a [Edited out]
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JimSofty / October 29, 2013
Freedom speech from CT.
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Javi / October 30, 2013
“(Freedom speech from CT.)”
I do not seek, I find.
It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso…………eek, eek, bang!
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AYMAN / October 28, 2013
“THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH” IS THE TITLE OF HIS
AUTOBIOGRAPHY,WHICH I HAVE READ.
WELL THESE ARE SOME OF THE EXPERIMENTS.
AFTER ALL HE WAS A “MAHA-ATMA” !!!!!!!!!!!!????????
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Gerard Thurai / October 29, 2013
Gandhi and Jimmy Savile – products of their time?
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