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Now Dilip Padgaonkar ( former TOI editor) compares RSS and Modi to Nazis Empty Now Dilip Padgaonkar ( former TOI editor) compares RSS and Modi to Nazis

Post by Guest Sun Nov 10, 2013 4:53 am

The utterances of Mahatma Gandhi on the evils perpetrated by the Nazi regime are well documented. So are the views of the Indian National Congress. The resolutions of the party, drafted by Jawaharlal Nehru, leave not an iota of doubt about its uncompromising stand against fascism and militarism of all hues: German, Italian and Japanese.

But there were other voices that were heard in India at that time. Here is what one influential leader had to say in 1938: “German pride has now become the topic of the day. To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic Races- the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well nigh it is for races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by.” The author of these lines was MS Golwalkar who, two years later, would head the RSS.

Consider what was heard in Germany then – the talk of a “spontaneous reaction to an action”, the plea for “unity”, the call to “put the nation first”, the rants against venal politicians and against “Jew-loving artists and intellectuals”, the yearning for a “strong and decisive leader.” Consider next what has been heard in India in the light of the Godhra and post-Godhra incidents and during the campaign speeches for the forthcoming state and national elections, especially by an RSS-nurtured figure aspiring to lead India on the strength of his messianic conceits. The coincidence could well be fortuitous. But it still sends a chill down the spine.

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/talking-terms/entry/too-many-fortuitous-coincidences

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