To begin with, (and at the risk of being pedantic) India is not a few hundred people, It is a country of about a 1.3 billion people. You will find all sorts of people who idolise all sorts of things. It is a market where you an easily find a few thousand buyers for almost anything. To call it a small scale industry is stretching things a bit too far.
Reading 'Mein Kampf' doesnt necessarily mean one is a fan of Hitler. It could simply be another student/academic of world history/politics trying to get a perspective from the shoes of a famous dictator, wondering why a whole country followed an individual who was so maniacal. If I was a student trying to make sense of world politics of the times, I would definitely read it to get an insight into the mind of one of the key players in the political scene of that era. Linking it to fanfare and political inclination is just plain sensationalism.
How many people who wear Che shirts and caps even know the first thing about his life? His is one of the most common faces in t-shirts caps etc. Fought against capitalists; ended up being a best seller!! ;)
About Swastika.
It was there centuries before the first Nazi was born. and its symmetry stood for harmony and balance in life. It still stands for the same things for a people who follow the age old religion. Just coz a fanatic group USED it for their purposes in the last century, those people should abandon their practices of yore? Then every religion should be devoid of followers coz there has been people who used the symbols for their own ends.
About the article
I would definitely question the spirit of journalism in this article. Let us see some of the phrases..."a small-scale industry(??)", "numbers are small but 'seem' to be growing", "some young people say",
"has sold more than 25,000 copies since 2000 and marketing head Sivaram Balakrishnan says: "It's been a consistent bestseller for us."(2500 copies a year for an India wide chain is a 'bestseller'? wow!!)
Brit: Why does ur posts (that appears to offer rationale for what happens in India and the western world) remind me of "Brutus is an honorable man" ?? :-p
To begin with, (and at the risk of being pedantic) India is not a few hundred people, It is a country of about a 1.3 billion people. You will find all sorts of people who idolise all sorts of things. It is a market where you an easily find a few thousand buyers for almost anything. To call it a small scale industry is stretching things a bit too far.
Reading 'Mein Kampf' doesnt necessarily mean one is a fan of Hitler. It could simply be another student/academic of world history/politics trying to get a perspective from the shoes of a famous dictator, wondering why a whole country followed an individual who was so maniacal. If I was a student trying to make sense of world politics of the times, I would definitely read it to get an insight into the mind of one of the key players in the political scene of that era. Linking it to fanfare and political inclination is just plain sensationalism.
How many people who wear Che shirts and caps even know the first thing about his life? His is one of the most common faces in t-shirts caps etc. Fought against capitalists; ended up being a best seller!! ;)
About Swastika.
It was there centuries before the first Nazi was born. and its symmetry stood for harmony and balance in life. It still stands for the same things for a people who follow the age old religion. Just coz a fanatic group USED it for their purposes in the last century, those people should abandon their practices of yore? Then every religion should be devoid of followers coz there has been people who used the symbols for their own ends.
About the article
I would definitely question the spirit of journalism in this article. Let us see some of the phrases..."a small-scale industry(??)", "numbers are small but 'seem' to be growing", "some young people say",
"has sold more than 25,000 copies since 2000 and marketing head Sivaram Balakrishnan says: "It's been a consistent bestseller for us."(2500 copies a year for an India wide chain is a 'bestseller'? wow!!)
Brit: Why does ur posts (that appears to offer rationale for what happens in India and the western world) remind me of "Brutus is an honorable man" ?? :-p