03-06-2006, 01:54 PM
aha, so the west has taken to gandhi... thus proving conclusively that gandhi was great eh??
the west never quite took to aurobindo, to vedas, to indian classical music - and thus all of those must be bad.. thank god that they are hooked to yoga thus proving how effective yoga is - the west afterall are the final authority on whats gold and whats stone - and we should all ape them.
btw, the "few" shortcommings of gandhi can produce a list longer than the grand trunk road. and the only real reason why the west is so enamoured with gandhi is that he used to fawn the west and went easy on their crimes. the way saddam was a favourite of the west when he was anti-iran, the way osama was in western good books, when he was fighting the "surabhi" if you knoiw who they are.
isnt it time indians stopped falling for their hog wash??
isnt it time we learnt to determine on our own about whats/whos good and whats not??
or is it going to continue like the days of Tagore who was hailed as a great poet only after the west certified him, like khurana after the west certified him and so on??
weanwhile the main reason why indians dont like Netaji is because the west considered him to be a pro-nazi "terrorist" (as they described all our freedom FIGHTERS, never mind the terror the westerners themselves perpetrated all over the globe), and the canards that the last englishman to rule india and his extended family cooked up. the western media has made it fashionable to like gandhi.
you seem to be a particularly exemplary victim of that hogwash, as also the gandhi-was-great fable (again a joint effort of west and nehru). gopal godse hit the nail on the head when he pointed out that gandhi did more damage to hindus than aurangzeb. and as for the damage he caused india (and the benifit he caused the poms) as a nation, its incalculable.
what middle east needs is not gandhi but some horse sense amongst the arabs. but all arabs have is "biblical ass" sense and not horse sense.
the west never quite took to aurobindo, to vedas, to indian classical music - and thus all of those must be bad.. thank god that they are hooked to yoga thus proving how effective yoga is - the west afterall are the final authority on whats gold and whats stone - and we should all ape them.
btw, the "few" shortcommings of gandhi can produce a list longer than the grand trunk road. and the only real reason why the west is so enamoured with gandhi is that he used to fawn the west and went easy on their crimes. the way saddam was a favourite of the west when he was anti-iran, the way osama was in western good books, when he was fighting the "surabhi" if you knoiw who they are.
isnt it time indians stopped falling for their hog wash??
isnt it time we learnt to determine on our own about whats/whos good and whats not??
or is it going to continue like the days of Tagore who was hailed as a great poet only after the west certified him, like khurana after the west certified him and so on??
weanwhile the main reason why indians dont like Netaji is because the west considered him to be a pro-nazi "terrorist" (as they described all our freedom FIGHTERS, never mind the terror the westerners themselves perpetrated all over the globe), and the canards that the last englishman to rule india and his extended family cooked up. the western media has made it fashionable to like gandhi.
you seem to be a particularly exemplary victim of that hogwash, as also the gandhi-was-great fable (again a joint effort of west and nehru). gopal godse hit the nail on the head when he pointed out that gandhi did more damage to hindus than aurangzeb. and as for the damage he caused india (and the benifit he caused the poms) as a nation, its incalculable.
what middle east needs is not gandhi but some horse sense amongst the arabs. but all arabs have is "biblical ass" sense and not horse sense.