Joseph Lelyveld (born April 5, 1937) was executive editor of the New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. Reviews of Lelyveld’s “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India” claimed that the book portrays Gandhi as a bisexual with a relationship with one of his disciples, the German-Jewish architect and bodybuilder Hermann Kallenbach, a charge that Lelyveld insists is incorrect. Since the controversy broke out, Lelyveld has consistently denied claims that his book portrays Gandhi as a bisexual, or a racist, etc. “It does not say Gandhi was bisexual. It does not say that he was homosexual. It does not say that he was a racist. The word bisexual never appears in the book and the word racist only appears once in a very limited context; relating to a single phrase and not to Gandhi’s whole set attitudes or history in South Africa. I didn’t say these things, So I can hardly defend them.”

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Joseph Lelyveld (born April 5, 1937) was executive editor of the New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. Reviews of Lelyveld’s “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India” claimed that the book portrays Gandhi as a bisexual with a relationship with one of his disciples, the German-Jewish architect and bodybuilder Hermann Kallenbach, a charge that Lelyveld insists is incorrect. Since the controversy broke out, Lelyveld has consistently denied claims that his book portrays Gandhi as a bisexual, or a racist, etc. “It does not say Gandhi was bisexual. It does not say that he was homosexual. It does not say that he was a racist. The word bisexual never appears in the book and the word racist only appears once in a very limited context; relating to a single phrase and not to Gandhi’s whole set attitudes or history in South Africa. I didn’t say these things, So I can hardly defend them.”

Kishwar Desai is an Indian author. Her first novel, Witness the Night, won the Costa Book Award in 2010 for Best First Novel. Her latest novel Origins of Love was published in June 2012.Both novels feature a feisty Indian middle-aged social worker Simran Singh, who gets involved in social problems and tries to find a resolution. In the first novel, Witness the Night, she tries to rescue a young girl accused of a horrific crime in Punjab (India) and while trying to help her stumbles upon the frightening and still prevalent tradition of female foeticide and infanticide in India. The judges of the Costa Award (Anita Rani, Anneka Rice and Mark Thornton) said about ‘Witness the Night’, “Kishwar Desai pulls off a remarkable trick, transplanting a country-house murder to modern-day India in a book that’s not afraid to tackle serious
themes” The book was also longlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize.

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Kishwar Desai is an Indian author. Her first novel, Witness the Night, won the Costa Book Award in 2010 for Best First Novel. Her latest novel Origins of Love was published in June 2012.Both novels feature a feisty Indian middle-aged social worker Simran Singh, who gets involved in social problems and tries to find a resolution. In the first novel, Witness the Night, she tries to rescue a young girl accused of a horrific crime in Punjab (India) and while trying to help her stumbles upon the frightening and still prevalent tradition of female foeticide and infanticide in India. The judges of the Costa Award (Anita Rani, Anneka Rice and Mark Thornton) said about ‘Witness the Night’, “Kishwar Desai pulls off a remarkable trick, transplanting a country-house murder to modern-day India in a book that’s not afraid to tackle serious
themes” The book was also longlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize.

He was born in 1962 in Kabul to a senior public servant and attended high school in Lycée Esteqlal. Following the Soviet invasion, Rahimi fled Afghanistan, taking refuge in Pakistan for a year and then relocating to France after receiving political asylum. He wrote Earth and Ashes, 2003.On completion of his studies at the Sorbonne, Rahimi joined a Paris-based production company where he produced seven documentaries for French television, as well as several commercials. Taking time off in the late 1990s,Rahimi embarked on his first writing project. His 2000 Dari/ Persian book, Earth and Ashes, was an instant bestseller in Europe and South America.

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He was born in 1962 in Kabul to a senior public servant and attended high school in Lycée Esteqlal. Following the Soviet invasion, Rahimi fled Afghanistan, taking refuge in Pakistan for a year and then relocating to France after receiving political asylum. He wrote Earth and Ashes, 2003.On completion of his studies at the Sorbonne, Rahimi joined a Paris-based production company where he produced seven documentaries for French television, as well as several commercials. Taking time off in the late 1990s,Rahimi embarked on his first writing project. His 2000 Dari/ Persian book, Earth and Ashes, was an instant bestseller in Europe and South America.

Kamala Surayya was a major Indian English poet and littérateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala, India. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the fiery poems and explicit autobiography. Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power, but also marked her as an iconoclast in her generation. On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in Pune, but has earned considerable respect in recent years.

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Kamala Surayya was a major Indian English poet and littérateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala, India. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the fiery poems and explicit autobiography. Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power, but also marked her as an iconoclast in her generation. On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in Pune, but has earned considerable respect in recent years.

Worshipping False Gods is a book by Arun Shourie. In this book, he criticized B.R. Ambedkar, the leader of Dalits, for alleged complicity with the British and lust for power and wealth. In Pune, his face was blackened by Dalit peoples for criticizing Ambedkar in his book.

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Worshipping False Gods is a book by Arun Shourie. In this book, he criticized B.R. Ambedkar, the leader of Dalits, for alleged complicity with the British and lust for power and wealth. In Pune, his face was blackened by Dalit peoples for criticizing Ambedkar in his book.