On the Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar and the Western myth of Mahatma Gandhi
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Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, activist and a world citizen. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things. Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father, a tea planter by profession. She spent her childhood in Aymanam, in Kerala, schooling in Corpus Christi. She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16, and embarked on a homeless lifestyle, staying in a small hut with a tin roof within the walls of Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla and making a living selling empty bottles. She then proceeded to study architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture, where she met her first husband, the architect Gerard Da Cunha.The God of Small Things is the only novel written by Roy. Since winning the Booker Prize, she has concentrated her writing on political issues. These include the Narmada Dam project, India's Nuclear Weapons, corrupt power company Enron's activities in India. She is a figure-head of the anti-globalization/alter-globalization movement and a vehement critic of neo-imperialism.In response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran, Rajasthan, Roy wrote The End of Imagination, a critique of the Indian government's nuclear policies. It was published in her collection The Cost of Living, in which she also crusaded against India's massive hydroelectric dam projects in the central and western states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. She has since devoted herself solely to nonfiction and politics, publishing two more collections of essays as well as working for social causes.Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004 for her work in social campaigns and advocacy of non-violence.In June 2005 she took part in the World Tribunal on Iraq. In January 2006 she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for her collection of essays, 'The Algebra of Infinite Justice', but declined to accept it.
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Lest we forget Gandhi also thought violence was a beautiful thing, more specifically terrorism against Indians.
“Poverty is the worst form of violence”..Mahatma Gandhi..(An editing facility would be nice!). regards G
P.S Tautology? See above…
Apologies (although tautologically speaking…..!?) If; “Povert is the worst form of violence*, how does this equate with Gandhi’s “support” for the caste system? One things has always struck me about Attenborough’s portrayal of Gandhi..that the depiction was one of a man on a “journey”..I’m minded to quote Christian scripture; “first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”…
but then I have also said; “Utilising historical evidence of environmental, ecological and sociological change and comparing the resulting information to epidemiological evidence of the density of (and disease frequency within), the coincident human population convinces one that “civilisation” has had very little to do with human evolution. This does not mean that (to paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi), “civilisation would (not), be a good idea”, in The West (or anywhere else), if it was practised given the understanding that the notion is not the “be all and end all” of political, sociological or cultural evolution. It seems that “civilisation” is a function of the human evolutionary process not the process itself!”
I was told that The Mahatma: “slept between two women as part of his Sadhana” (paraphrased from), Muz Murray “Sharing the Quest” (Element Books), a good read (go to: http://gkhales.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/this-is-no-parliament.html )
*If so does it not follow that: “isolation is the worst form of torture”?