the book has often repeated, but yet to be released in India the author of a book about Mahatma Gandhi said, it is a "disgrace" that it has been banned in the Indian State of Gujarat.Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld said that the book based on the newspaper was banned reviews.
He said that his account with a German man, sensationalised had reviews Gandhi's friendship, may have been the homosexual.
Although legal, homosexuality is still a stigma in India.
Gujarat State Assembly unanimously on Wednesday, great soul to ban: Mahatma Gandhi and his battle with India with immediate effect, even if it was not yet released in India and only a few people will have read it.
"In a country (India), which itself calls a democracy, it is shameful to ban a book which nobody has read including the people who do the ban," Mr Lelyveld was by the press trust of India News Agency quoted.
"Extreme step""they should at least try to to see the pages that they think to offend them before they take such an extreme step." I find it very disheartening to think that India discussion so would be restricted, "he said."
Indian author and relative of Mahatma Gandhi protested against the ban.
Gandhi's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi said he opposed a ban on books, and that it does not matter "when the Mahatma was straight, gay or bisexual".
"Every time, if he were still the man, the India resulted in freedom".
Writer Namita Gokhale said she was saddened by the ban.
"Not just ideas ban every time a book is banned, it saddens me, because you can, you can not ban idea.", she said.
"In India, a democratic space for ideas is a gift and I think that is most pointless exercise to ban a book."
Mr Lelyveld has written denied that Gandhi was a bisexual, say that his work outside of the context had been taken.
"I do not claim that Gandhi a racist or is bisexual in great soul", he said the times of India.
"The word ' bisexual ' appears nowhere in the book."
However detailed reviews of the book comment on its coverage of his alleged affair with Hermann Kallenbach - enter German architect, in South Africa, emigrating met Gandhi in 1904.
An often-quoted letter from Gandhi, Mr. Heinz-Dieter Kallbach in the book reads "how fully you have taken my body in possession". "This is slavery with a vengeance."
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra modes said that content of the book was "perverse and defamed the symbol of non-violence".
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