11-04-2007, 06:15 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Gandhi Nobody Knows
Richard Grenier
[From the magazine, "Commentary," March 1983, published monthly by the American Jewish Committee, New York, NY.]
http://history.eserver.org/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bodhi, did you read through it completely? There's a lot of anti-Hindu material in that article, although it does provide some unknown tidbits about Gandhi.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->...Hackneyed Indian falsehoods such as that "the
British keep trying to break India up" (as if Britain didn't give India a unity
it had never enjoyed in history), or that the British *created* Indian poverty
(a poverty which had not only existed since time immemorial but had been
considered holy)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->He believed in
a religion whose ideas I find somewhat repugnant. He worshipped cows.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Richard Grenier
[From the magazine, "Commentary," March 1983, published monthly by the American Jewish Committee, New York, NY.]
http://history.eserver.org/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bodhi, did you read through it completely? There's a lot of anti-Hindu material in that article, although it does provide some unknown tidbits about Gandhi.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->...Hackneyed Indian falsehoods such as that "the
British keep trying to break India up" (as if Britain didn't give India a unity
it had never enjoyed in history), or that the British *created* Indian poverty
(a poverty which had not only existed since time immemorial but had been
considered holy)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->He believed in
a religion whose ideas I find somewhat repugnant. He worshipped cows.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->