I am ONLY commenting on this post because I have been mentioned by name. I would like to make four short points. 1. This gratuitous post says much about the 'deep concern' that Cornel feels for the Dalits and a lack of dialogue between these two guys on the brutality that Dalits suffer in India. 2. It is a pity that in about 5000 years of world history, Cornel knows only the names of three fascists, who happened to be Catholic. Very coincidental, for a guy who claims to have an "interest" in history. 3. Cornel telling Bhandare about fascism is like "Taking coal to Newcastle". Perhaps Cornel's knowledge of the RSS is equally stunted as his knowledge of the world's fascists dictators. 4. Bhandare with his RSS affiliation can teach Cornel much about fascism. But then, teaching Cornel does not take much smarts.:=)) It takes much time and patience ... with a lot of 'Saiba kakut kor'. :=)) Regards, GL
--------- CORNEL DACOSTA Hi Bhandare: Words like "fascist" are used loosely by many but also rigorously by scholars. For now, I would prefer to refer to just three particular fascists as firmly recognised in history texts. They were Hitler, Franco and Mussolini. All three were profoundly Roman Catholic much to the chagrin of Gilbert Lawrence of course.
