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Cover Story | Gandhi@150: Celibacy

Sex and the Saint

In every domain of life, he was a player of infinite games and, therefore, his worldview becomes, in some ways, quite inaccessible to us. We have to remember that one of the litmus tests of Gandhi, and he’s absolutely firm about it, is that you never do anything to someone else that you do not first do to yourself. You never make a demand of someone else that you do not first make of yourself

Sex and the Saint

Gandhi with his grandniece Manu, Bihar, 1947 (Photo: Alamy)