To best understand and address the inequality in India today, Arundhati Roy insists we must examine both the political development and influence of M. -- Alice Walker. -- Junot D az The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart.
Arundhati Roy is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness.
In doing so she makes the case for why Ambedkar\'s revolutionary intellectual achievements must be resurrected, not only in India but throughout the world.
In The Doctor and the Saint, Roy exposes some uncomfortable, controversial, and even surprising truths about the political thought and career of India\'s most famous and most revered figure.
His refusal to allow working-class people and untouchables to create their own political organizations and elect their own representatives remained consistent too.
For more than half a century--throughout his adult life-- Gandhi\'s] pronouncements on the inherent qualities of black Africans, untouchables and the laboring classes remained consistently insulting, writes Roy.
This book situates Ambedkar\'s arguments in their vital historical context-- namely, as an extended public political Debate with Mohandas Gandhi.
In Roy\'s analysis, we see that Ambedkar\'s fight for justice was systematically sidelined in favor of policies that reinforced caste, resulting in the current nation of India: independent of British rule, globally powerful, and marked to this day by the Caste system.
Ambedkar\'s brilliant challenge to his near-divine status was suppressed by India\'s elite.
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To best understand and address the inequality in India today, Arundhati Roy insists we must examine both the political development and influence of M
