01-24-2006, 08:14 AM
Bose was simply following the dictum that, in matters of security, ethics and other related concerns should not play any part, so definitely he should not be held accountable for allying with an enemy's enemy- much greater harm has been done to India by idealistic fools like nehru.. Still, i think Savarkar was more farsighted than Bose, regarding India's future path. It does not take anything away from Bose's achievements. If Nehru hated Bose, then we can be sure that Bose was a necessary line of thinking for india's immergence from tamas. as said by Vivekananda, he would applaud even a rajasik murderer who dared to act than the tamasik slumber that was india's condition around 1900 or so.
The beginnings of German and Japanese expansionism were not any more cruel or exceptional than the beginnings of british expansion in India or american expansionism in N america. Germany had been busy consolidating its interior while these other powers were building their colonies. WW2 was simply Germany's way of catching up to the other colonialists. As for the race theorizing and anti-semitism of the Nazis, it was not any more peculiar than that of the BRitish or the catholic church or the russian anti-jewish pogroms, or the adoring Americans.
From the Indian viewpoint, they are all, including communism, extensions of the origianl abrahamic error.
The beginnings of German and Japanese expansionism were not any more cruel or exceptional than the beginnings of british expansion in India or american expansionism in N america. Germany had been busy consolidating its interior while these other powers were building their colonies. WW2 was simply Germany's way of catching up to the other colonialists. As for the race theorizing and anti-semitism of the Nazis, it was not any more peculiar than that of the BRitish or the catholic church or the russian anti-jewish pogroms, or the adoring Americans.
From the Indian viewpoint, they are all, including communism, extensions of the origianl abrahamic error.