Joseph Lelyveld’s controversial book on Mahatma Gandhi will be available in India later in April and the author is hopeful that the storm over his work will subside.
The book will be published in India “within less than three weeks” and will be widely available in the country, he said.
The Pulitzer prize-winning author said while he currently has no plans to visit India, he “will be interested” in going to the country “if I am invited”.
“Those who are interested will read it. This sort of tempest will pass and be forgotten and the book will remain. So I am not particularly worried about it,” Lelyveld said here.
Hoping that things “will work out fine” regarding the controversy over his book, the author said he did not reach any conclusion about Gandhi’s sexuality in his book Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India. The book got embroiled in a controversy in India after a review published in Britain’s tabloid Daily Mail said the book claimed that Gandhi was “bisexual” and “deeply in love with Hermann Kallenbach,” an architect and bodybuilder who became Gandhi’s disciple in South Africa.