Monthly Archive for April, 2005

My wife goes to school at Buffalo. And I look at my wife’s yahoogroups and see the notification:

Film: ‘Final Solution’ (2004)[ Author's Note: Subtle undertone--; Indians are Nazis], 148 mins, IndiaDirector: Rakesh Sharma (Filmmaker will be in attendance) [Author's note: Of course he is in attendance--this is his US junket, now he shall spend his time in the fleshpots of capitalistic decadence studying sin cities first hand]

In a conundrum fuelled by fascist regimes and apathetic national governments [Author's note: what the hell does a conundrum fuelled by fascist regimes mean in any case?], ‘Final SolutionÂ’ is an attempt to chronicle the brutal events of a state-sponsored genocide that occurred in Gujarat,India in the year 2002. It is a study of the politicsof hate. In 2002, India saw about 2,500 Moslems being brutally murdered, hundreds of women raped and more than 200,000 families left homeless. Right-wing Hindu fundamentalists argued that this bloodshed was necessary to retaliate against the equally brutal and senseless burning and killing of 58 Hindus on the Sabarmati Express train at Godhra, Gujarat on February 27, 2002. The film examines the aftermath of the deadly violence that followed this event between the months February 2002 – July 2003. Borrowing the chilling term Endöslung, meaning the systematic relocation and murders by the Nazis, for the title of his film, Rakesh Sharma seeks to remind that “those who forget history are condemned to relive it.”

What’s with us as Indians? I mean just looking at this paragraph above makes me squirm . It also makes me understand why we have been invaded ad nauseum by Islamic despots and imperialist powers for centuries. That’s because we as a country, through the ages, have kept on producing enough traitors to keep our enemies smug and happy. Continue reading ‘Mir Jaffar’s Illegitimate Offsprings’