Kallenbach Letters: What If Gandhi Was Gay? I feel like crying out to you 'Do come  and  help  me!'  Mrs. Gandhi is again down with her swellings. She has lost all power of resistance. She weeps like a child, is ever angry with me as if I was the party  responsible for her swellings. I am over head and ears in work. This  institution  costs  me  much  trouble.  I  wish  I  had  the  time  to describe to you the troubles I am passing through. I am not dejected but I feel lonely. You know what I mean. Heaven knows what will happen. There are so many sick people on the Farm. I want hours of solitude and have not a minute of it. Do 'buck up' and prepare for the struggle of the spirit when you are able to come here. I know nothing about some honour that has been conferred upon me. I have just received a letter of congratulations. More in my next. With love, OLD FRIEND {Source: From the original Gandhi-Kallenbach Correspondence, National Archives of India} The Indian government has bought a full collection of mementos, documents and letters between Hermann Kallenbach and M.K.Gandhi from Sotheby's in a private deal at $1.28 million , fueling  speculation of an attempt to keep the private relationship of nation's father-head (which, some say, was homosexual or homoerotic), secret. Gandhi and Kallenbach (last row, 2nd and 3rd from left) in Tolstoy Farm, SA in 1910. Photo: courtesy of AFP. The long-standing