The Mahatma's Shadow — Robert Walker

The world knows the saint. This is the story of the man who lived in his shadow.Forget the statues, the holidays, and the sanitized history. The Mahatma's Shadow is a relentless, unflinching look at Mohandas Gandhi as you've never seen him before: a brilliant strategist, a flawed father, and a moral absolutist whose unwavering principles came at a staggering cost.From the sun-scorched plains of South Africa, where a young Gandhi fights not for equality but for a higher place in a segregated society, to the inner sanctums of his ashram, where he conducts bizarre and disturbing experiments on his young female followers to test his own purity, this is a story of profound contradictions. It is a tale of a man who would sacrifice his own family for his vision, whose rigid advice to the Jews of Nazi Germany revealed a dangerous detachment from reality, and whose political genius was matched only by his personal blindness.Framed by the modern-day quest of a driven researcher determined to separate the myth from the man, The Mahatma's Shadow is a gripping and provocative page-turner that challenges everything you thought you knew about the Father of a Nation. This is not the history you were taught. This is the truth that was left in the dark.