01-25-2006, 11:12 AM
Ben Ami,
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->i'd like to know how many of you agree with sushmita that its time we stopped calling netaji a hero?? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> You're right that it was none of my business to try and steal a hero away from you. I would hate it if someone did that to me. You and the others here have behaved better than I'd have in your place.
At least, for the sake of that <i>other reason</i> I mentioned, can you keep your admiration for him a little bit more quiet. It's a serious issue. (I know you don't support Bose for any other reason than his wanting to free India -> <b>This is meant to be: </b>I understand that it's not nazism's racism that Bose supported and that that's why you suport Bose's siding with Hitler to free India.)
Ben Ami, this is not meant to be a provoking question, so don't be angry: if Bose was a leftist, and you sensibly hate communism*, then why do you approve of Bose? Or do you only approve of his patriotism, but not of any leftist plans he might have had for a free India? I'm not saying he did have leftist plans but he was a leader, and it's hardly unlikely that he might have had aspirations to lead in some capacity after the war.
*I'd assumed you meant to insult me with that "Romila Thaparish" statement - and I took it as an insult. Which is why I thought you disapproved of communism.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->i'd like to know how many of you agree with sushmita that its time we stopped calling netaji a hero?? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> You're right that it was none of my business to try and steal a hero away from you. I would hate it if someone did that to me. You and the others here have behaved better than I'd have in your place.
At least, for the sake of that <i>other reason</i> I mentioned, can you keep your admiration for him a little bit more quiet. It's a serious issue. (I know you don't support Bose for any other reason than his wanting to free India -> <b>This is meant to be: </b>I understand that it's not nazism's racism that Bose supported and that that's why you suport Bose's siding with Hitler to free India.)
Ben Ami, this is not meant to be a provoking question, so don't be angry: if Bose was a leftist, and you sensibly hate communism*, then why do you approve of Bose? Or do you only approve of his patriotism, but not of any leftist plans he might have had for a free India? I'm not saying he did have leftist plans but he was a leader, and it's hardly unlikely that he might have had aspirations to lead in some capacity after the war.
*I'd assumed you meant to insult me with that "Romila Thaparish" statement - and I took it as an insult. Which is why I thought you disapproved of communism.