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“The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate: Race, Caste, and Colonialism”
In this lecture. Arundhati Roy looks at how caste has continued through modern Indian history, and why the words of Ambedkar are necessary today more than ever, showing that caste is the most urgent question if India is to become a world-leading nation.
Literati will be on hand to sell books for the event.
Arundhati Roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. She has written several non-fiction books, including The Cost of Living, Power Politics, War Talk, An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, and Public Power in the Age of Empire, and Walking with the Comrades. Roy is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize.
