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From: "Aditya, the Hindu Skeptic" <a018967t-AT-bc.seflin.org>
Subject: Reflections on Columbus day,  Dussehra and other Holocausts
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 05:30:47 -0400


This year Columbus day in USA is celebrated within a  few days of Dussehra
festival in India.

While there is a realization rapidly gaining ground in USA that in spite of
the subsequent prosperity enjoyed by Europeans who followed his path, the
consequences of his journey were most tyrannical and inhumane for the native
population of the day in this continent. There are several  movements to
stop celebrating Columbus day as a holiday and consider it as a sad day for
the humanity and pledge that no human being suffer the way native Americans
have.

However this realization is not as rapid and universal as the condemnation
of Jews by HItler even in his homeland because the descendants of the
American victims are disorganized, voiceless and disheartened.

Sadly enough the tyranny against a noble and erudite King Ravan  of Lanka
has suffered even worse fate. The descendants of the victorious but cruel
invading king Ram has not only become an yearly  celebration but the
vanquished king has become a symbol of all the ills in the world and he is
made to suffer this ignominy year after year with no end in sight. The same
Indians who blame Western invaders and Mir Qasims for their long slavery do
not even give a second thought to what Vibhishan did to that noble king in
his own land.

Have a peaceful and joyous day.
Aditya Mishra 
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Random thought of the day:
	There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. ... W. Heisenberg

   

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