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Saturday, July 24, 2021

Arundhati Roy on Gandhi - 8c

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Modern civilization has, of course provided enormous material comforts but the Faust-like exploitation of the private ego and its satisfacti...
Monday, July 5, 2021

Arundhati Roy on Gandhi - 8b

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 Among Gandhi's most well-known (as a caricature not its substance) 'non-status quo' positions is his critique of modernity. Gan...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Arundhati Roy on Gandhi - 8a

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Arundhati Roy calls Gandhi 'Saint of the Status Quo'. She seems to have a limited idea of what 'status quo' means. I would h...
Monday, June 7, 2021

Arundhati Roy on Gandhi - 7h

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 The world excessively and misguidedly respects leaders who are loud and aggressive. We make them our bosses and our political leaders. We f...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Arundhati Roy on Gandhi - 7g

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Many Indians today have the belief that anger and retribution are the keys to achieving justice, political change and power. But a show of b...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Arundhati Roy on Gandhi - 7f

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Gandhi challenges our assumption: why can’t you be quiet and strong? We live with a value system that can be called the Masculine Ideal — th...
Sunday, May 2, 2021

Arundhati Roy on Gandhi - 7e

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It is telling that, at his trial for the murder of Gandhi, Nathuram Godse complained bitterly about how the bania (merchant-class) Gandhi ha...
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Suresh K
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
I am an Engineer/MBA forced into early retirement. In 1999, at the age of 32, I suffered a brain stem stroke which left me a quadriplegic without speech. This blog is mainly about my life after the stroke.
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