 First edition | |
| Author | Arundhati Roy |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | History Indian Literature |
| Publisher | Haymarket Books |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Publication place | India |
| Pages | 128 |
The Doctor and the Saint is a book written by Indian author Arundhati Roy. It was published in 2017 by Haymarket Books.
Reception
In The New Indian Express, reviewer Madhulika Liddle wrote: "As Roy explains in the preface to this book, The Doctor and the Saint looks at the practice of caste in India, through the prism of the present as well as the past.”
According to the Firstpost review: "The Doctor and the Saint is strongest when it sets about its primary task: to scrutinise the historiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and to remind readers of some inconvenient truths about the man, facts that make the Mahatma’s mythologists very uncomfortable indeed."
References
- Roy, Arundhati (1 March 2014). "The Doctor and the Saint". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- Vij, Shivam (12 March 2014). "Why Dalit radicals don't want Arundhati Roy to write about Ambedkar". Scroll.in. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- Liddle, Madhulika (22 June 2019). "The Doctor and the Saint review| Vision and Politics". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- Jha, Aditya Mani (19 May 2019). "Arundhati Roy's The Doctor and the Saint: Strongest when scrutinising Gandhi, but falters on Ambedkar". Firstpost. Retrieved 1 September 2022.