From the review of a new book on Gandhi

How Gandhi Became Gandhi:
"Some years ago, the British writer Patrick French visited the Sabarmati ashram on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat, the site from which Mahatma Gandhi led his salt march to the sea in 1930. French was so appalled by the noisome state of the latrines that he asked the ashram secretary whose job it was to clean them.

A sweeper woman stopped by for an hour a day, the functionary explained, but afterward things inevitably became filthy again.

But wasn’t it a central tenet of the Mahatma’s teachings that his followers clean up after themselves?

“We all clean the toilets together, on Gandhiji’s birthday,” the secretary answered, “as a symbol to show that we understand his message.”"
P.S. From a comment in 3quarksdaily
The Life and Work of Mohandas K. Gandhi: Recommended ReadingP.P.S. It seems that the book is now bannd by Gujarat State India state bans controversial new Mahatma Gandhi book:
"A controversial book on Mahatma Gandhi has been banned by the government in his native state of Gujarat.

Chief Minister Narendra Modi said that its contents were "perverse and defamed the icon of non-violence".

The book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Joseph Lelyveld contains evidence that India's independence hero had a homosexual relationship.

Correspondents say that more bans can be expected in a country where homosexuality still carries a stigma."