Gandhi is known as India’s “father of the nation" who actively advocated the message of non-violence and secured India its Independence from the British.
But from his bizarre s3x beliefs to his "Dear friend..." letters to Hitler, a dark side to his private life remains a secret.
Let's Explore his past life that led him to be the most loved and hated personality at the same time.

1. First person to fight against racism who himself was Extremely Racist.
- His journey against Racism started in his 20s with his 'heroic' civil rights movements in South Africa, after being thrown off a train which was reserved for whites.
- When the British moved to placing the Indian and black populations together, He harshly resisted, "Why, of all places, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town."
- Multiple books have been written about his time there, calling him a “racist". Gandhi said that Africans are “troublesome, very dirty, and live like animals and savages."

2. He really angered former British PM Winston Churchill.
- Britain’s most popular Prime Minister Winston Churchill just couldn’t stand Gandhi, who didn’t play by his rules.
- He once said about Gandhi: ‘It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a Middle Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir, striding half naked up the steps of the Vice regal palace to parley'.
- Churchill once referred to Indians “as a beastly people with a beastly religion and their leader, the beastliest of them all".

3. Gandhi Left His Father’s Deathbed For Sex.
- When he was 16, Gandhi left his father’s bedside, caught in what he called the “grip of lust”, and spent the night with his wife, missing his father’s final breath.
- Later he wrote, “Every night whilst my hands were busy massaging my father’s legs, my mind was hovering about the bed-room when religion and medical science forbade sexual intercourse.”
- In his later life, Gandhi completely abstained from sex and chose Chastity.

4. Gandhi Called Hitler His “Friend”
- Gandhi wrote a few "Dear friend..." letters to Adolf Hitler in 1939 and 1940, person responsible for starting World War 2, to call for peace.
- Adding, "We have no doubt about your bravery or devotion to your fatherland, nor do we believe that you are the monster described by your opponents."
- In the book “Lies, Damned Lies, and History”, Graeme Donald says that our appreciation of Gandhi is a “form of self-delusion." Quoting Gandhi he says, “I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted.”

5. Gandhi Let His Supporters to Rot In Prison.
- Author Andrew Roberts wrote a 2,000 word essay tearing Gandhi apart, above all for leaving his supporters to rot in jail.
- “Between 1900 and 1922, Gandhi ­suspended his efforts no fewer than three times, leaving more than 15,000 supporters who had gone to jail for the cause in vain.”
- According to him, every time Britain jailed an Indian, they lost a worker and lost profits. If enough people went to prison, Britain would realize they had no choice but to negotiate.

6. He slept Naked with young girls including his grand niece.
- Missing his father’s death took a toll on him, and he manifested that guilt into a complete rejection of sexuality, that resulted in some strange behavior.
- Coming to the realization that he couldn't serve humanity while consumed with lust he had many women sleep nude in his bed to test his chastity.
- His list of nude sleeping partners included his grandnephew's wife and his own grand niece, to test his willpower.

7. According to him Non Violence is to let people die if it means stopping a war.
- In World War 2, He wanted the Allies to “fight Nazism without arms”, saying that winning through weaponry would stop an enemy but condemn humanity.
- He said, "As violence is the basis of Western society, Mussolini's reforms deserve an impartial study,” calling him one of the great statesmen of our time.
- Every time his own followers became violent, he’d force them back on the path of peace by withdrawing his support.

8. Gandhi had very Disrespectful and Questionable views towards Women.
- He let her Wife Die. “British doctors told him penicillin would heal her but Gandhi refused to have alien medicine injected into her body, to maintain her purity and she died.”
- In South Africa where a young man was harassing his female followers, he responded by cutting the girl’s hair off to ensure that the “sinner’s eye” was “sterilized”.
- Gandhi also believed that “menstruation was a manifestation of the distortion of a woman’s soul by her sexuality”.

Gandhi was undoubtedly a complicated individual. Quite inspirational but with an interesting views and life to say the least.
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