Sir Ben Kingsley in a universally acclaimed bio-epic? Definitely not this time around.
Joseph Lelyveld’s new biography of Mahatma Gandhi, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi And His Struggle With India hasn’t even hit bookstores in India, but it has already unleashed a firestorm of controversy.
The state of Gujarat, where the icon of the Indian Independence movement was born, has already banned the book. There are some Indian leaders now calling for a national boycott of Great Soul, the latest work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who once covered India for The New York Times.
The Book
The book on Amazon: Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
In the reviews on Amazon Indians have commented on the book.