Word: chaudhurani
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...women, and was able to persuade them to join him in peculiar experiments of sleeping and bathing naked together, without touching, all apparently to strengthen his chastity. (Whether these experiments were always successful is anyone's guess.) It is also revealed that Gandhi began a romantic liaison with Saraladevi Chaudhurani, niece of the great poet Rabindranath Tagore-a disclosure that has created a buzz in the Indian press. The author tells us that Gandhi, perhaps disingenuously, called it a "spiritual marriage," a "partnership between two persons of the opposite sex where the physical is wholly absent...
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