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4. After 27 years in prison, this leader won both the Nobel Peace Prize and, in democratic elections, the presidency of this country.
10. After a seven-year insurgency, this rebel defeated the ruling regime and took charge of a government that remains in power here 40 years later.
14. "With its lost...straw-clutching outcasts, its bullying and later blinded magnate, its endless rain of symbolic and allegorical smallshot, its scarred and almost sceneryless universe, [this work] can be most variously interpreted--somewhat after the fashion of the blind men and the elephant."
Half a century after his death, most of us know little of Gandhi's real history or how the Mahatma in our minds came to be. Hundreds of biographies uncritically canonize him. Winston Churchill scorned him as a half-naked fakir stirring up sedition. His generation knew him as a...
More central and even more controversial was Gandhi's cult of celibacy. At 13, he dutifully married and came quickly to lust for his wife Kasturba. At 16 he left his dying father's side to make love to her. His father died that night, and Gandhi could never forgive...