“I do not accept the claim of saintliness,” said Mohandas Gandhi in 1920, when he had not yet been given the spiritual title of “mahatma.” “I am prone to as many weaknesses as you are.” These words ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In Wednesday’s L.A. Times, Jonathan Kirsch reviews ‘Great Soul,’ the ...

Wednesday marks 150 years since the birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Better known as the Mahatma, or great soul, Gandhi was an Indian lawyer who led his country to freedom from British colonial ...

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 first ...

Gandhi's views on women's rights certainly fall short of what a contemporary, 21st century sensibility would expect. At the same time, in the 1920s and '30s, to bring women into public life — to ...