CW: domestic abuse, emotional manipulation, sexual assault, pedophilia, racism, death
This week, we’re putting Gandhi on trial — and we’re not pulling punches. Turns out, the man behind the loincloth was less “peace and love” and more “racism and ego trips.” In this episode, we dig into the messy, manipulative, and straight-up deplorable parts of Gandhi’s life that somehow didn’t make it into the inspirational quote calendar.
This isn’t the Gandhi people picture when they think of him, but this is young Gandhi.
And before I share the links, here is a picture of Gandhi’s funeral. There were more than 2 million people there. If you click on the picture, it’ll take you to an article about his death.
And the last picture before the links is this picture of Gandhi with his teenage followers right up front beside him. Just to keep in your mind for later.
This article is talking about his racism largely and mentions his disgusting behavior with underage, single-digit girls briefly.
This post talks about Gandhi’s racism as well and talks about his treatment of his wife as it pertains to her medical conditions and his thoughts toward modern medicine (but only when it applied to people who weren’t himself) a little.
This article has a long list of just a lot of terrible things in it about the man.
This Yale article talks about the racism and the celibacy tests he conducted with children sleeping naked in his bed.
This one specifically talks about his attitudes toward women and the lasting impact those attitudes have had one India.
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