Women In Gandhi’s Life/ The Love-Affairs Of Mahatma Gandhi Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

How can it be he kept company with
Indian and foreigner women
And did not love them,
How can it,
I question it not,
But they in askance
Keep whispering into
That Gandhi too had been in relationship?

First, loved he Kasturba
Then the ashramites
And movementeers
Practising brahmacharya
Though no brahmachari was he,
Not a yogi, but a bhogi,
Was a married man
With children
And abandoning them,
How could he be a sanyasin?

How can it be if I can see him still
The old man going
With two English girls,
I mean White girls,
How can it be
As he too was a man
Of flesh and blood,
Love and attachment?

You going with
And experimenting with
The power of celibacy,
May I ask you, Gandhi,
Why the girls merely to flank you
While walking
Or going for a photo call
During your march.