Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World

by Ramachandra Guha

On 14 April 1938, Gandhi awoke with an erection; and despite efforts to contain his excitement, had a masturbatory experience. He was sleeping alone, and it was decades since he had been aroused in such a way.

Sex Experience

first major statement on world affairs.

Foreign Policy

Linlithgow and Gandhi also discussed the idea of ‘Pakistan’,

First reference to Pakistan

‘Pakistan Resolution’,

a policy of non-embarrassment’.

On 3 September an ‘illegal Congress radio’ came on air in Bombay.

I flag here only an important point obscured

Author interjects

perhaps the reluctance of the official world to part with power,

in Bengal, its leaders there, from C.R. Das to Subhas Bose, were never as subservient to Gandhi as were Congressmen from other provinces.