![]() ![]() ![]() He makes every top ten list of the world’s most influential human beings – usually right after Jesus, Mohammad, and the Buddha. and thanks above all to his own genius for attention-catching moral-political theater - he is a world-historical figure, revered more than critically assessed, but at least not ignored. Thanks in part to the excellent Attenborough film, but thanks as well to the appropriation of his ideas by Martin Luther King, Jr. Many could identify a photo of him, and some could even describe in a general way his views of non-violent protest. More or less everyone could name Mohandas Gandhi. When Europeans and North Americans think about the founding of the Indian nation, what thoughts do they have about its distinguished founders? Not very many. Introduced with the essay The Doctor and the Saint, by Arundhati Roy Review of ANNIHILATION OF CASTE: The Annotated Critical Edition, by B. ![]()
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