Kasturba Gandhi
Significant Others
Gondy and Mohandas
Gondy wrote in his autobiography, my brother's wife had thoroughly me about my behaviour on that first night. Gondy decided right away that she would be his pupil and that he would teach her how to read and write addition to everything else. He frames her illiteracy as a failure of his because he couldn't master his lust, because his love for her wasn't pure enough. The truth is that casterba had little interest in book learning. She would, however, come to regret this later in her life.
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