Aaj TV English News - World https://english.aaj.tv/ Aaj TV English en-Us Copyright 2026 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:33:47 +0500 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:33:47 +0500 60 India to buy private letters of Gandhi https://english.aaj.tv/news/10199676/india-to-buy-private-letters-of-gandhi <p id="yui_3_5_1_22_1341831451640_265"><img title="Gandhi" src="http://www.aaj.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Gandhi.jpg" alt="" width="325" height="200" /></p> <p>A report says the Indian government is buying a collection of letters that may provide information on the relationship between India's independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhiand a German architect.</p> <p id="yui_3_5_1_22_1341831451640_256">The correspondence between Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach had been listed for sale by the international auctioneers Sotheby's in London.</p> <div class="mceTemp"> <dl id="attachment_199679" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 478px;"> <dt class="wp-caption-dt"><img class="size-full wp-image-199679" title="Lovers" src="http://www.aaj.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Lovers.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="630" /></dt> <dd class="wp-caption-dd"><em>Lovers? Gandhi and Kallenbach sit alongside a female companion. A new book has controversially said that the pair had a two-year relationship between 1908 and 1910 .</em> </dd> </dl> </div> <p id="yui_3_5_1_22_1341831451640_263">Press Trust of India said the Ministry of Culture has agreed to pay the Kallenbach family slightly more than the catalog price ranging between $775,000 and $1.1 million. It would store the thousands of letters and photographs at the National Archives.</p> <p id="yui_3_5_1_22_1341831451640_387">India's Gujarat state banned a book on Gandhi by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld last year after reviews hinted Gandhi and Kallenbach had a sexual relationship. <strong><em>AP</em></strong></p>

A report says the Indian government is buying a collection of letters that may provide information on the relationship between India's independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhiand a German architect.

The correspondence between Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach had been listed for sale by the international auctioneers Sotheby's in London.

Lovers? Gandhi and Kallenbach sit alongside a female companion. A new book has controversially said that the pair had a two-year relationship between 1908 and 1910 .

Press Trust of India said the Ministry of Culture has agreed to pay the Kallenbach family slightly more than the catalog price ranging between $775,000 and $1.1 million. It would store the thousands of letters and photographs at the National Archives.

India's Gujarat state banned a book on Gandhi by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld last year after reviews hinted Gandhi and Kallenbach had a sexual relationship. AP

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