guys..guys..for heaven's sake...we have sooo many other issues and other truly important history lessons that we need to learn and know about India. I am sure that this particular knowledge about a ruler's religious belief and deeds will do far more bad than good!!
I solemly hate when someone talks about attrocities of Muslims on Hindus or the vice versa. As many people have already commented, there are Hilters in every country, in every religiion in every walks of life!
If you talk about Aurangazeeb, what is your answer to the ruthless, senseless people who demolished Baber Mosque in Ayodhya, or what do think about Modi in Gujarat. These are as nasty rascals as Aurangazeeb or any body else.
All are filthy fundamentalist. Just like all religion preaching one God, there is only one evil in following any religion, and thats being a fundamentalist, extremist!
Indian history is fantastic, excellent and brilliant more than any other country perhaps. Plz, try make Indian's, the biggest secular nation, proud of our history, not divide the people with your filthy thoughts.
There is soo many things to think and learn about now. India needs to position itself as a global player in economic and political fronts. Plz think in those line and not in these petty issues.
All Indian's, irrespective of their religion, must be really really proud of our magnanimous history.
RE:For heaven's sake...
by Saurav Basu on Feb 16, 2007 03:13 PM Permalink
How can you condone naming a religious place in the name of Babur, a barbarian in his own right.
And lady, dont mess around with history....Muslims destroyed 80,000 hindu temples in their 800 yrs rule....
RE:For heaven's sake...
by Goutam Bhattacharjee on Feb 16, 2007 02:28 PM Permalink
So, according to you, what is the most important task we Indians need to do now? What is the call of the hour? Tell us, we want to know.
RE:For heaven's sake...
by vishal mishra on Feb 16, 2007 02:31 PM Permalink
If u have people had any shame then u should had handed over ram janmabhoomi, krishna janmabhoomi and kashi vishwanath complex back to the hindus. but it was not done. U people do not shed even a single tears for the 1000 of temple destroyed in BaNGLADESH AND PAKISTAN. Secularism doesn't mean minority appeasement. Why kashmiri pandits were driven out of Kashmir just because they were hindus? why Sabrtmati train burnt just because few Hindu were returning from pilgrimage?
Infact Sunni Islam has bred hatred all over the world and its main proponetn Dar ul uloom should be closed.
RE:For heaven's sake...
by kartik deshpande on Feb 16, 2007 02:25 PM Permalink
your point is well taken yet addressed by the author when he says, "'OK, this is all true, Aurangzeb was indeed a monster, but why rake up the past, when we have tensions between Muslims and Hindus today?'
There are two reasons for this exhibition. The first is that no nation can move forward unless its children are taught to look squarely at their own history, the good and the bad, the evil and the pure. The French, for instance, have many dark periods in their history, more recently some of the deeds they did during colonisation in North Africa or how they collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War and handed over French Jews who died in concentration camps (the French are only now coming to terms with it).
The argument that looking at one's history will pit a community against the other does not hold either: French Catholics and Protestants, who share a very similar religion, fought each other bitterly. Catholics brutally murdered thousands of Protestants in the 18th century; yet today they live peacefully next to each other. France fought three wars with Germany in the last 150 years, yet they are great friends today.
Let Hindus and Muslims then come to terms with what happened under Aurangzeb, because Muslims suffered as much as Hindus. It was not only Shah Jahan or Dara Shikoh who were murdered, but also the forefathers of today's Indian Muslims who have been converted at 90 per cent. Aurangzeb was the Hitler, the asura of medieval India."
RE:For heaven's sake...
by Sudhakar Rao on Feb 16, 2007 02:26 PM Permalink
"magnanimous history"? How can the History (read above) be magnanimous and how can we be proud of it? It is MADE like that by 'Nehruvic historians'. Indian History was glorious until Muslims invaded us.
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