Vinay Lal is professor of history at Delhi University and the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written widely on colonial India, Gandhi and cinema. His books include Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi and Deewaar: The Footpath, the city and the Angry Young Man.
A celibate for the greater part of his life, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi continues to attract nearly unrivalled attention — apparently for the sex that did not take place.