Behind the good wife

Gandhi's great-grandson recreates Kasturba's life from her diary and presents a woman bound by a patriarchal society but hardly a doormat

With a towering personality like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Bapu) as her husband, it is no surprise that the pages of history seem to have reduced Kasturba Gandhi (Ba) to a loyal accomplice than a freedom fighter who took on the might of British colonial rule in India.
 

Located in the present, we could debate whether the man must be blamed for looming large or the wife held responsible for diminishing her own light to let him shine but there is no denying that her story needs to be heard, understood and retold in all its complexity.
 

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