Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India have never approved of massacring civilians."' Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India is a 2011 biography of Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld and published by Alfred A Knopf. The book is split between the time Gandhi spent in South Africa and his return to India as the Mahatma. "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India" claims that the founder of modern India had a sexual relationship with Hermann Kallenbach, a German-Jewish bodybuilder, and also made disparaging
Āstika and nāstika Āstika and nāstika Āstika (Sanskrit आस्तिक IAST: āstika) derives from the Sanskrit "asti", "there is, there exists", and means “one who believes in the existence (of a soul separate from the material world, Brahman, etc.)” and nāstika means "an unbeliever" . These have been concepts used to classify Indian philosophies by modern scholars, and some Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina texts. "Āstika" has been defined in one of three ways; as those who accept the epistemic authority of the Vedas, as those who accept the existence of ātman, or as those who accept the existence of "Ishvara". In contrast, "nāstika" are