Gandhi created a politics of guilt: Arundhati Roy

December 04, 2012 01:06

In first episode of Al Jazeera's South 2 North programme, Redi Tlhabi talks to best-selling Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy and hears why she thinks that Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi should not be made into icons.

"Gandhi created a politics of guilt, whereas here what we have to fight is a political fight .... We need a new imagination, perhaps it begins with forcing capitalism to tolerate a non-capitalist society in its midst, so that it accepts the fact that it can't have everything .... For me, somebody like Nelson Mandela or even somebody like Gandhi, I object to deifying them because they committed plenty of mistakes. That doesn't mean you have to trash them or jump on them or jump on their memories or what they did, but we have to see," Roy says.

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