At around 29/11/05 1:25 pm, Carl Remick wrote:
>> From: ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> At around 14/11/05 11:13 pm, ravi wrote:
>>
>> Last week, walking by Mahatma Gandhi road, I came across the not
>> uncommon sight of fashionable teenagers sporting western styles and
>> mannerisms, prominent among them a young chap with a T-shirt
>> displaying a large red swastika with a picture of Hitler ...
>> Prominently
>> displayed in one of their Pune locations were multiple copies of
>> Hitler's Mein Kampf. I walked over to the guy at the desk to chat about
>> the prime display and general customer interest. He responded that the
>> book has been moving fairly fast off the shelves. He had no particular
>> explanation to offer for this phenomenon.
>
> I wonder if the explanation might have anything to do with Gandhi and
> Hitler's mutual nemesis Windbag Churchill? Goes the old saying: The enemy
> of my enemy is my friend.
>
Though Gandhi said things about the persecution of Jews that might be
considered silly, he had no sympathy or solidarity AFAIK with Nazism or
Hitler. From memory of Margaret Bourke-White's writings, I recall her
discussing the problem with Gandhi and his responding with firm
conviction that non-violent means could be used to oppose even the Nazis.
--ravi
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