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well said….it has been in our culture well before Hitler stole it from us…

Or is it that the Aryans brought it with them to India?

What?!! We’re NOT Nazis? When did this happen?

I mean we’ve been Nazis since when… the Indus Valley Civ.?

jammy, it is quite unfortunate that people choose to ignore history when alarmism suffices.

Sankar,shhhh! You are supposed to keep it all quiet - how is a secret HinduNaziFascist society to function if you go around giving away all our secrets in public?

Ja Wohl.

I mean … erm… Understood.

sei jetzt schön brav ;)

Shanti: That was hardly an alarmist post. There is a lot of saffronization going on in Education circles. Especially when it comes to history and language. While Swastika is a symbol rooted in the history of Sankrit - it’s use in contemporary culture has been less than pleasant. And I mean within contemporary Indian culture.

Given the current religious tension - It’s better to point out to state sponsored projects and look for possible gaps within them, than be taken by surprise. Blogs are precisely that. They try and pick up vibes long before the MSM can even vaguely sniff a problem.

Delhi Univ, and JNU are becoming increasingly coloured with politics of religion. And that’s true for most campuses in India. (Including the technical ones.) I think all of us perceive structures differently.

Of course, LOL! :beam: That’s what happens when you have megalomaniacs perverting what is essentially a symbol with deep philosophical meanings. What’s next? The OM symbol? :evil:

Neha, I find the post alarmist since the Swastika by itself and as related to the language Sanskrit should not raise any hackles owing to its history in India.

Would we be so concerned if an Arabic studies group made their building crescent-shaped? Why are the communist parties of India still using the hammer and sickle under which banner Stalin murdered millions ruthlessly?

How does a symbol really matter. A few years ago BJP govt had “Vande Matram” whispered over the phone lines and we had Satyamev Jayate before independence. But this hardly made the country more patriotic or prevent us from corruption respectively.

You are right, Hiren - it doesn’t matter, which is exactly why kicking up a ruckus over something so insignificant is silly and alarmist.

While Swastika is a symbol rooted in the history of Sankrit - it’s use in contemporary culture has been less than pleasant. And I mean within contemporary Indian culture.

Why has the use of Swastika been less than pleasant in India?

all i know is when i made a pot in my ceramics class and wanted the hindu swastika on it, my teacher went nutz… oh well… i even brought in a hindu wedding card to prove it to her… but under pressure, had to compromise and cover the damn thing in flowers… cest la vie.. my high school ‘wanting to teach other about brownie culture’ attempts failed.

The link is gone again….

Anyways..where are these new “Nazi” classified people poiing up from ??? Here there are “HinduNazi” and on my blog this one asshole called me “FemiNazi”…what more types are there???

Sakshi, I think it is the game of the intellectually lazy to call anything unfamiliar some version of Nazi or the other.

It is also pretty interesting that River is playing these games by switching the link around every few hours. Why post something on your blog if you don’t want others to look at it and talk about it?

Shanti, I guess you are right. I mean for Hitler’s sake, let the word ‘Nazi’ be given an official burrial.

As for the author of the site you mentioned, has someting really interesting put up titled ‘The Parable of the Bitch’….I think you need to check it out.

All I will say is that the plot is just getting too interesting…or am I just being too ‘Bitchy’..ooopppsss!!!

I read the post, and I got the impression that she posted it because she had studied in JNU, and found the fact interesting. I would probably post a picture if I found out that my school building was shaped like an ostrich and not like our Maths teacher’s head, as I had previously assumed. And you have to admit, it is interesting.

PS: I checked the DesiPundit link, and found that she changed the link because of the ugly comments she got, where the commentors accused her of being racist. She also requested DesiPundit to remove the link. You can read about it here.

Sakshi, it is pretty interesting that now the poem is titled “aitch” instead of “bitch”. I think I’d rather be a strong, independent and sometimes stubborn bitch to anything else, doncha think? ;)

Aditya, the funny thing was that the author changed the link atleast 4 times to the last count after Desipundit removed her link. Secondly, it was the comments (that have now been removed) - hers and those of her readers - that were of the tone of ,”Oh My God, the swastika! Hindu Nazis!” (I am paraphrasing, of course!).