Joseph Lelyveld has written a generally admiring book about Mohandas Gandhi, the man credited with leading India to independence from Britain in 1947. Yet “Great Soul” also obligingly gives readers more than enough information to discern that he was a sexual weirdo, a political incompetent and a fan…
    Early on Gandhi was dubbed a ‘mortal demi-god’—and he has been regarded that way ever since   Â