09-05-2005, 01:21 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Play along fellows. Spreading hate for Gandhi is not going to undo what he did.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So what you are advising people to do is to allow false history to be preached to Indians about Gandhi by asking us to play along, no one is spreading hate here, what we are doing is spreading the truth about Gandhi, if u cannot differentiate between truth and hate then its not our fault.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If we critisize them today a feeling of distrust will follow for our 'founding fathers'. we will stay divided and bitter towards our history and our own. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So according to you criticism of Gandhi is wrong even though the criticism is valid and based on facts, on this pretext false history is being drummed into the heads of Hindu children in India which you want us to ignore because according to you spreading the truth will create division, sorry but I prefer a divided country that knows the truth rather than a united country which is kept in the dark about true history.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->So let us take Gandhis, Nehrus(yes even Nehrus), Patels let us adorn them with gold and garlands let us sing their praise and what great they did for our country. let us repeat and flaunt what was good about them, let us down play what was not so good. Let us know the history. But let us decide what it means. A meaning that is for the good of the future of our country. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You selectively only want to highlight the good in those people but want to playdown the enormous blunders they committed, I do not know of any reputable historian who will agree with this philosophy of supressing the truth. It is precisely this policy of highlighting only the good done by Gandhi that led to his deification in India so much so that today Gandhian goons can try to supress the Marathi play on Nathuram Godse a couple of years ago, highlight both the good and bad done by him and don't cherrypick what u like while supressing what u don't like.
So what you are advising people to do is to allow false history to be preached to Indians about Gandhi by asking us to play along, no one is spreading hate here, what we are doing is spreading the truth about Gandhi, if u cannot differentiate between truth and hate then its not our fault.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If we critisize them today a feeling of distrust will follow for our 'founding fathers'. we will stay divided and bitter towards our history and our own. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So according to you criticism of Gandhi is wrong even though the criticism is valid and based on facts, on this pretext false history is being drummed into the heads of Hindu children in India which you want us to ignore because according to you spreading the truth will create division, sorry but I prefer a divided country that knows the truth rather than a united country which is kept in the dark about true history.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->So let us take Gandhis, Nehrus(yes even Nehrus), Patels let us adorn them with gold and garlands let us sing their praise and what great they did for our country. let us repeat and flaunt what was good about them, let us down play what was not so good. Let us know the history. But let us decide what it means. A meaning that is for the good of the future of our country. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You selectively only want to highlight the good in those people but want to playdown the enormous blunders they committed, I do not know of any reputable historian who will agree with this philosophy of supressing the truth. It is precisely this policy of highlighting only the good done by Gandhi that led to his deification in India so much so that today Gandhian goons can try to supress the Marathi play on Nathuram Godse a couple of years ago, highlight both the good and bad done by him and don't cherrypick what u like while supressing what u don't like.