Today we’re highlighting two banned or challenged books, the Bhagavad Gita as it Is and Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India.
The first, the Bhagavad Gita as it Is, was challenged in Russia, where a call was made to ban the book altogether by asking it to be ruled “Extremist”. In Russia, being placed on the Federal List of Extremist Materials leads to banning. Already, over 1,000 texts are banned this way.
The second book, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India was banned in parts of India in 2011. It causes controversy in the United States, since the biography hints at a same-sex relationship between Gahndi and Hermann Kallenbach.