every religion has its own rules and regulations. just like its blasphemous for a hindu to eat beef/non-veg, its for a christian to offer prayers before anyone but God. Just like most countries over the world respect a Hindu's desire to stay away from non-veg/beef, the president of the us also should be allowed to follows his own religious principles in india
The article is inconsistent and it digressed half way through from 'insults to mahatma' to 'saudi royals are bad' . I beg the author to get a clear idea of what he wants to write on before writing this. The author says "the Indian press and the liberal elite have thus far given a free pass to this blatant insult to the memory of the Mahatma and to all Indians" - in relation to comments by president bush. Half way through he say's "The government ... for fawning over the Saudi ruler ... Should President Bush or Prime Minister Blair or even the Pope have dared to commit such an egregious folly, headlines would have blared in those Leftist organs about India's sovereignty and ancient history being trampled upon by ugly colonialists who still seek to subjugate India economically and culturally ..." Am I missing something?
Even if the article was consistent, Why blame people if they don't want to do something against their faith? I went to a christian family's house for lunch and did not eat anything because they had nothing without meat... Should that be interpreted as offensive behavior on my part by the host? Please put yourself in their place for a sec before writing such things.
It appears the writer has just crammed up the GRE vocab document. I dont see any other reason why he has used so many complicated words in his article.
Dude....clamp down on your pre-posterous use of words. The common man may not understand what you have scribbled in your article.
Obviously you have not heard of Freedom of expression!!!. I do not see any reason why anyone (George Bush or King Saud) should be forced to pay homage at a Samadhi if he did not want to and are not comfortable with the ritual to blend with their beliefs. By the same token I would stand by any Indian official who would refuse to pay homage to something that is alien to him. Everyone should have the guts to stand up to what they believe in. If they do not mind of course it does not matter as several foreign dignitaries have done to date but no one should insist that someone do something that is alien to them.
Much is said about the barbaric state of Saudi Arabia. There is no doubt in anyones mind about their medieval behaviour and mind set. What is distressing is the columnists foolish covert suggestion that we of a Great nation should stoop down to follow their example!!!
This is a silly argument without any merit. We do need Bush to visit and pay respect at Rajghat unless he wants to. We should make sure they do not insult us by doing something we forbid but we cannot force them to do something to make us feel better. The fact that other people have a diffrent belief and they want to follow it does not mean they insulted us. If we consider Bush not going to Rajghat as insulting Mahatma it is a problem with our thinking.
I dont think US would force people coming from other nations to go and pay respects to some site or some church or some person.
RE:To each his own!!
by savi on Feb 20, 2006 04:42 PM Permalink
i don see yy v r all so bothered if george bush didnt pay homage to gandhi i mean i really dont think gandhiji is very much brthered by that ok and i think wats even stupider is that v r all debating about this like jobless ppl(ok i think ive just added my name to that list but anyways...)stop worrying about gandhi he's dead and he cudnt care less about whu visits his grave and whu doesn't!!!
I do not see it as an insult. Some like to visit the cremation, some dont. you are just maginfyingsuch a small issue. its not an insult to mahatma, its an action which needs introspection. Only people who do not come into terms with the greatness of mahatma will do, as we see here: a saudi king, why will he care about mahatma. and why shud indian government make people visit the cremation unless they want to.
