This guest blog post comes to you courtesy of Silpa Kovvali, a blogger for The Huffington Post currently residing in New York City and a Really Smart Lady!

Andrew Roberts, it seems, has been holding in his deep seated hatred of Mohandas Gandhi for some time. I imagine he doesn’t come by many people willing to keep him company out there on that limb, so it’s easy to see why he’s resorted to twisting the words of Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph Lelyveld, author of Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi And His Struggle With India, to produce the kind of vitriolic drivel that passes for this Wall Street Journal book review.

Not that the article was a total loss! Shameless public ...