skua#ABCMinefield #ScottStephensAU
20 Aug 2015 Scott criticises #GeorgeOrwell's cynicism on ABC:
"He was very very hostile, and I think needlessly hostile it seems to me, to the idea of the saint, and so he wrote ferociously, it seems to me libellously, about #Tolstoy after his conversion to orthodoxy, and also about #Ghandi, saying that saints should be judged as guilty until otherwise proven innocent."
Really Scott?
4 March 2014 #ArundhatiRoy
https://jamiajournal.com/2014/03/04/arundhati-roy-questions-gandhis-status-as-the-mahatma-in-a-lecture-at-jamia/
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/theminefield/george-orwell/6708170
Arundhati Roy Questions Gandhi's Status as the 'Mahatma' in a Lecture at Jamia | Jamia Journal
As part of its Walter Sisulu Memorial Lecture series, the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, organised on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 a lecture on the topic “The Doctor and The Saint: The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate” by noted writer and political commentator, Arundhati Roy. The program took place in the conference ...