Erieka bennett biography of mahatma
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Mahatma Gandhi: A saint obsessed with temptation & bowel movement
Gandhi led what some would consider a remarkably sybaritic existence, surrounded by doting female servants and secretaries
In pursuit of the perfect bowel-movement Gandhi constantly changed his diet.But some of his notions strike the reader as curious. Thus, his chief drink was a mixture of honey, lemon and bicarbonate of soda; and at meals he had a bowl of crushed garlic by his plate
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Mata Hari
Dutch exotic dancer (1876–1917)
For other uses, see Mata Hari (disambiguation).
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Mata Hari, c. 1910 | |
| Born | Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (1876-08-07)7 August 1876 Leeuwarden, Netherlands |
| Died | 15 October 1917(1917-10-15) (aged 41) Vincennes, France |
| Cause of death | Execution bygd firing squad |
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| Spouse | Rudolf John MacLeod (m. 1895; div. 1906) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Service branch | Deuxième Bureau |
| Service years | 1916–1917 |
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle, Dutch:[mɑrɣaːˈreːtaːɣeːrˈtrœydaːˈzɛlə]; 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (MAH-tə HAR-ee, Dutch:[ˈmaːtaːˈɦaːri]; Indonesian for 'sun', lit. 'eye of the day'), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who
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Mahatma@150: Two Indians who didn’t see a 'Mahatma' in Gandhi
NEW DELHI: For one so wedded to peace, Mahatma Gandhi’s constant companion in life was the tempest. Often it blew all too ferociously, inviting for him charges of preaching from the pulpit, sidetracking the freedom movement in favour of obscure moral questions, pandering to the Hindu majority or Muslim minority, talking down to Dalits and talking up the virtues of non-violence to the point of discrediting India’s armed revolutionaries.
His protracted battles with the British and with Jinnah are well known. So is the exasperation his proteges like Nehru, Patel and Bose sometimes felt over his approach. Unfairly for both Gandhi and his opponents, though, Indian textbooks, for long after Independence, barely informed new generations about his differences and debates with two of his staunchest and most unsparing Indian critics: BR Ambedkar and VD Savarkar.
Savarkar appeared on the scene before Ambedkar, when Gandhi w