06-12-2008, 09:09 PM
Dr Arvind Sharma's blog:
Denying the Holocaust: What Has It Got to Do With Hinduism?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Jewish Holocaust â three thousand years and then three years. A Hindu holocaust â a thousand years of foreign rule and then two years of partition. Or is the comparison overblown or has it been blown away to maintain communal peace in India?
My reverie was suddenly interrupted as he concluded. âSo as I was saying, Dr. Sharma. I cannot vouch for the veracity of the Holocaust in Germany or Poland. But I know it happened in a village in Ukraineâ.
He perhaps even had evidence to prove it but I thought the deposition was proof enough. Have the victims of Partition been deposed? Such as are amongst us? <span style='color:red'>In the case of the Jews the no-sayers will deny it had occurred, in the case of the Hindu they wonât let you ask the question if it occurred, much less find out?</span>âat least so I am told on every visit to India.
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Denying the Holocaust: What Has It Got to Do With Hinduism?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Jewish Holocaust â three thousand years and then three years. A Hindu holocaust â a thousand years of foreign rule and then two years of partition. Or is the comparison overblown or has it been blown away to maintain communal peace in India?
My reverie was suddenly interrupted as he concluded. âSo as I was saying, Dr. Sharma. I cannot vouch for the veracity of the Holocaust in Germany or Poland. But I know it happened in a village in Ukraineâ.
He perhaps even had evidence to prove it but I thought the deposition was proof enough. Have the victims of Partition been deposed? Such as are amongst us? <span style='color:red'>In the case of the Jews the no-sayers will deny it had occurred, in the case of the Hindu they wonât let you ask the question if it occurred, much less find out?</span>âat least so I am told on every visit to India.
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