Hi Rajeev, Is it your money which allows you to force your article on rediff ? You tend to generalise things too much. If Japan has few more Indian restaurants than China does mean Japanese like Indian culture more ? Don't you think that your logic is very superficial? Hope you take note of it..
RE:Please don't generalize
by Arnab on May 02, 2005 05:54 PM Permalink
Do not bother about Rajeev Srinivasan's opinion. He is an ignorant person who has a fixation with China and Chinese people that borders on racism. What more can you expect from someone who drops the name of IIT and Stanford at the drop of a hat ? As for Japanese attrocities, a very conservative estimate puts the number of Chinese deaths at Japanese hands to more than 10 million. Compared to what Germany had to do (and rightly so) for its wartime attrocities, Japan really did nothing. Can you imagine German politicians in power honoring Hitler and his cohorts at their tomb without drawing protests from the world ? Well the Japanese did something similar recently and the Chinese protested and very rightfully so. Rajeev raises the Tibet issue and compares it to the number of Chinese killed in Nanking by Japanese (comparing attrocities by numbers killed - that should be enough to raise the red flag on the sanity of this person) - conveniently forgetting that Japanese attrocities were not limited to Nanking only. If you are interested in right-of-center views, read Arvind Lavakare's or Kachan Gupta's column. Unfortunately, the former's columns do not appear here anymore.
And don't tell me you missed everything in Rajeev's article, except for the remark about Indian restaurants in Japan. There is also the serious matter of India getting a security council seat, and Chinese proliferation of missles and nuclear weapons to Pakistan. Also, Chinese support for dictators in Pakistan, Burma and North Korea. It was not just about who's eating Indian food and who's not.
An excellent article. Japan has already apologised 21 times for its wartime atrocities. Yet China is flogging it in pueauits of its own political agenda. But world opinion is against China's stand vis a vis Japan. Indian media may be dumb but Michael Trend's imaginary apology letter from China found in Beijing published in The Sunday Telegraph, London on 24.4.05 should remind China of its own bad record of atrocities.
It would do well for our government to build up our economy and strength and not divert its attention on useless pursuits like NDA-bashing. It is only on such strength that we can get our seat in the UN Security Council.
India-Japan cooperation on all fronts is the need of the hour.
Your article is full of hatred and lies towards to China. I have read a few your articles before. They were all same tune, anti-China. The hatred distorts your mind and forces you to tell lies. I heared of some Tibetans were killed in 1950s but where did you get the information about forced abortion in Tibet? Did you get the idea from China's one child policy? Actually, there was no one child policy enforced to all minorities including tibetans. Everybody without prejudice know and acknowledge this. How come you did not do a bit investigation about this and blindly abuse your own credibility? I know why. It is your hatred. The hatred is deep in your bone. I am a Chinese and I do not have any bad feeling towards Indian. I actually look up to Indian because my supervisor is an Indian. I have a lot other indian friends and they have very different opinion about China and Chinese from you. If you want to understand China and Chinese, go to China have a look and get some fact before writting such crap. Your articles taste like poison. When I read it I feel sick. I hope your articles do not poison Indian people.
