Comments on: An Indian holocaust museum? http://www.yazadjal.com/2003/10/21/an-indian-holocaust-museum/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:25:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: speed http://www.yazadjal.com/2003/10/21/an-indian-holocaust-museum/#comment-285 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2003/10/21/an-indian-holocaust-museum/#comment-285 I am studying historic preservation so am obviously fascinated by museums and history. The first thing that struck me when I came to the US is how they have museums for every goddamn thing here, inspite of their relatively short history. There's actually a Jello museum in NY and even a sanitary museum in Boston. Here, like Europe, they exalt all things from the past, even the less savory past like slavery and the Civil War. I think we do need the same attitude in India and definitely a greater respect for our history. Unless it's preserved in museums, the past is very easy to forget. And we don't want to forget massacres and riots. I am studying historic preservation so am obviously fascinated by museums and history. The first thing that struck me when I came to the US is how they have museums for every goddamn thing here, inspite of their relatively short history. There’s actually a Jello museum in NY and even a sanitary museum in Boston.

Here, like Europe, they exalt all things from the past, even the less savory past like slavery and the Civil War. I think we do need the same attitude in India and definitely a greater respect for our history. Unless it’s preserved in museums, the past is very easy to forget. And we don’t want to forget massacres and riots.

]]> by: Gautam http://www.yazadjal.com/2003/10/21/an-indian-holocaust-museum/#comment-286 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2003/10/21/an-indian-holocaust-museum/#comment-286 We might want to forget massacres and riots, because in a world where few forget and fewer forgive, these memories do not neccesseraliy evoke feelings of remorse as much, as of injury to one or the other communities pride. Also maybe somethings need not be remembered as vividly as they are. Slavery and Pre-Civil Rights Discrimination are used as excuses to perpetuate some sort of positive discrimination. And the Holocaust has created such memories that any one who raises a voice against equally reprehensible actions by the state of Isreal in the West Bank is immediatly branded Anti-Semitic, a very stigmatic label to carry around in the liberal(sic.) west. Similarly the case for reservations in India is based on similar retrospection. The idea of an Indian Holocaust Museum is a good one though many Indians or rather the narrow minority with passionately ill-conceived convictions may use it quite contrariwise. We might want to forget massacres and riots, because in a world where few forget and fewer forgive, these memories do not neccesseraliy evoke feelings of remorse as much, as of injury to one or the other communities pride.

Also maybe somethings need not be remembered as vividly as they are. Slavery and Pre-Civil Rights Discrimination are used as excuses to perpetuate some sort of positive discrimination. And the Holocaust has created such memories that any one who raises a voice against equally reprehensible actions by the state of Isreal in the West Bank is immediatly branded Anti-Semitic, a very stigmatic label to carry around in the liberal(sic.) west. Similarly the case for reservations in India is based on similar retrospection.

The idea of an Indian Holocaust Museum is a good one though many Indians or rather the narrow minority with passionately ill-conceived convictions may use it quite contrariwise.

]]> by: speed http://www.yazadjal.com/2003/10/21/an-indian-holocaust-museum/#comment-287 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2003/10/21/an-indian-holocaust-museum/#comment-287 Well, I understand what you're saying Gautam but ppl who think that way will think that way no matter what. It's the way the museum is presented is what is very important. It's a very sensitive issue which needs to be dealt with with utmost caution but skirting around it will do no one any good. Well, I understand what you’re saying Gautam but ppl who think that way will think that way no matter what. It’s the way the museum is presented is what is very important. It’s a very sensitive issue which needs to be dealt with with utmost caution but skirting around it will do no one any good.

]]> by: Patrix http://www.yazadjal.com/2003/10/21/an-indian-holocaust-museum/#comment-288 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2003/10/21/an-indian-holocaust-museum/#comment-288 incidentally I was designing a holocaust museum for Partition in the Chandigarh Assembly complex in the unbuilt Governor's Palace Reuse as a part of a competition...alas the competition got scrapped...so much for my museum thoughts. incidentally I was designing a holocaust museum for Partition in the Chandigarh Assembly complex in the unbuilt Governor’s Palace Reuse as a part of a competition…alas the competition got scrapped…so much for my museum thoughts.

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