Intellectuals and Gandhi kin have come out in the open against the clamour for taking out of shelves a controversial book on Mahatma Gandhi, saying banning is not a "democratic response".

Gujarat government on Wednesady banned the controversial book Great Soul; Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Pulitzer-winning author Joseph Lelyveld in the state.

An American author on Tuesday angrily dismissed claims his new book on Mahatma Gandhi alleged that India's independence leader was a racist bisexual who left his wife for a bodybuilder.

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Maharashtra government will initiate steps to ban sale of a controversial book on Mahatma Gandhi by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Joseph Lelyveld.