Thursday, September 18, 2014

Arundhati Roy accuses Mahatma Gandhi of discrimination

Indian writer and political activist Arundhati Roy


Arundhati Roy, the Booker prize winning author, has accused Mahatma Gandhi of discrimination and called for institutions bearing his name to be renamed.

Speaking at Kerala University in the southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram, Roy, 52, described the generally accepted image of Gandhi as a lie.

"It is time to unveil a few truths about a person whose doctrine of nonviolence was based on the acceptance of a most brutal social hierarchy ever known, the caste system … Do we really need to name our universities after him?" Roy said.


Read the rest at theguardian.com


Mahatma Gandhi

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