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.
