Comments on: Searching for the Swastika

By: prasoon

prasoon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:20:03 +0000

strange – just because they(techcrunch i mean) have a different pov, they are trying to shut what shefaly was saying. inane madness!
swastika has meaning – positive and negative both – if thats the case, atleast the world should admit it.

I liked it if Google actually removed the link from hot-trends – thats because say if it was hurting sentiments of even a sizeable number of people, it should have been removed considering that. Just because it has been removed shouldnt make Hindus angry – its not out of disrespect/inappropriate-ness/being offensive * lets just see it as a thing that it was bad for some people and lets just respect their sentiments. There is no harm in dong that because it does not shatter off the high regards that we as hindus hold for the symbol.

Dont we ask for removal of the photographs of gods/goddesses from shoes/bikinis – well, similarly if they asked for removal its ok. We ask the photographs to be removed because its holy to us and to them its just another religious sentiment which they make fun of or take it very lightly. Similarly, we can take the swastika lightly this time and be fine with the request of those who found it offensive. I repeat – I find it perfectly OK just for the reason that now it leaves them happy and DOES NOT make us any sad since our respect for the ymbol did not budge a bit :)

By: mumbaigirl

mumbaigirl — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:11:34 +0000

good grief, just caught up on all this

By: Within / Without » An Inappropriate and Offensive Swastika

Within / Without » An Inappropriate and Offensive Swastika — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:00:44 +0000

[...] to yesterday’s madness, Google now appears to apologize for the “Swastika Situation“. Here’s [...]

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:30:09 +0000

Neha:

Here is another ‘wise’ piece that calls Swastika a ’strange symbol’.

http://bloggle.typepad.com/bloggle/2008/07/strange-symbols.html

What is more, Guy Kawasaki’s company Truemors uses this link so I am letting it be known to him on Twitter. At least as a partly Japanese guy he would know about it.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:52:21 +0000

Before he blocks you, ignore him. Stop following him on twitter, unsubscribe to TechCrunch, and if you’re a fan of techmeme, create a yahoo pipe to filter out TC.

His (Arrington) 15 minutes have lasted about 14 too long. I had hoped when he was caught editing his own comments, investing in companies that he promoted on his site without disclosure, et al, he’d just fade away into the background and some new loudmouth idiot would replace him. Sadly, the next idiot in line is still there, probably growing impatient.

I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather have people searching for “swastika”, since the wikipedia entry is the first result, and have some folks learn the true meaning of the symbol, than I would people searching for “britney spears” or “paris hilton” (two other highly searched for phrases). At least with swastika they might learn something positive.

By: Swastika on Google Trends | DesiPundit

Swastika on Google Trends | DesiPundit — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:35:31 +0000

[...] Neha reminds TechCrunch that probably a large proportion of the world population doesn’t find the symbol offensive just because a madman from Germany decided to usurp it. For all his fears of a ’successful spamming attempt’ TechCrunch probably doesn’t realize that if this story gets legs they probably will have played a large role in doing so. So by their logic, are they promoting Neo-Nazism? Their counterparts aren’t that paranoid and are aware of other usages of the symbol. [...]

By: Anil

Anil — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:41:03 +0000

I think it is important to get the point across about the swastika, more for the cultural connotation it has vis-a-vis hinduism.