I am an ardent critic of Gandhi, and many of those criticisms of Gandhi are worth considering and outside of private discussions, rarely brought up in India.
However, for an article that criticizes Gandhi for being racist, the author has some nerve saying:
"Throughout his entire life Gandhi displayed the most spectacular inability to understand or even really take in people unlike himself--a trait which V.S. Naipaul considers
specifically Hindu, and I am inclined to agree."
Edit: The article is also not without glaring inaccuracies. For example, the author claims that Gandhi supported Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army. Nothing could be further from the truth. The only reason Subhash Chandra Bose even quit the Indian National Congress was because Gandhi had him kicked out because of ideological differences.
The article says, "He [Gandhi] sang the praises of Subhas Chandra Bose"
And indeed, in 1942 Gandhi called Bose "a prince among the patriots". Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Subhash_Chan... Wikipedia says that this was a "a reference, in particular, to Bose's achievement in integrating women and men from all the regions and religions of India in the Indian National Army." The source for the wikipedia quote is The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi.
Thus it seems that the claim from the article is indeed correct, albeit it one-sided.
I am unsure of what you mean. I have no love lost for the author of that article: parts of that article are true but he seems clearly biased to the point of having included outright fabrications in other parts.
But, Gandhi is correctly spelt Gandhi in the article and not Ghandy or Ghandi as others often do.
Edit: Ah I see, the link spells it Ghandi. The article, however, gets it right.
The misspelling comes from the site mirroring the original article, not the author of the article itself. What specifically about the article do you think is factually incorrect?
However, for an article that criticizes Gandhi for being racist, the author has some nerve saying:
"Throughout his entire life Gandhi displayed the most spectacular inability to understand or even really take in people unlike himself--a trait which V.S. Naipaul considers specifically Hindu, and I am inclined to agree."
Edit: The article is also not without glaring inaccuracies. For example, the author claims that Gandhi supported Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army. Nothing could be further from the truth. The only reason Subhash Chandra Bose even quit the Indian National Congress was because Gandhi had him kicked out because of ideological differences.