MUMBAI: A new restaurant in India’s financial hub, named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters showing the German leader and Nazi swastikas, has infuriated the country’s small Jewish community.
‘Hitler’s Cross’, which opened last week, serves up a wide range of continental fare and a big helping of controversy, thanks to a name the owners say they chose to stand out among hundreds of Mumbai eateries. “We wanted to be different.
This is one name that will stay in people’s minds,” owner Punit Shablok told Reuters. “We are not promoting Hitler. But we want to tell people we are different in the way he was different,” he said.
But India’s Jews say they are outraged by the gimmick. “This signifies a severe lack of awareness of the agony of millions of Jews caused by one man,” said Jonathan Solomon, chairman of the Indian Jewish Federation, the community’s umbrella organisation. “We are going to stop this deification of Hitler,” he said without elaborating.
The small restaurant, its interior done out in the Nazi colours of red, white and black, also has a lounge for smoking the exotic Indian water pipe or “hookah”. Posters line the road leading up to it, featuring a red swastika carved in the name of the eatery. One slogan reads: “From Small Bites to Mega Joys”.
A huge portrait of a stern-looking Fuehrer greets visitors at the door. The cross in the restaurant’s name refers to the swastika that symbolised the Nazi regime. “This place is not about wars or crimes but where people come to relax and enjoy a meal,” said restaurant manager Fatima Kabani, adding that they were planning to turn the eatery’s name into a brand with more branches in Mumbai. The swastika has its roots in ancient Indian Hindu tradition and remains a sacred symbol for Hindus. reuters
I take it that those Indians have not heard of the Anti Defamation League, they will hear from them soon, they should draw cirles around the swastika and call it the charkhi ...
Good start. Any kind of ethnic or religious discrimination should be banned anywhere in text books, restuarant ads or in political sermons during prayers.
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Both the India-fact and Pakistan-fact sites are incredibly funny and sick at the same time...quite pathetic and its amazing that there are people who make the content for both the sites and hardly surprising though that few of our friends here happily copy paste from there...grow up guys...
India-facts.com seems fairly new yet Pakistan-facts and indian goons behind it have been spewing hatred and false assumptions against Pakistan for long time.
I think you have’nt noticed one thing, mostly News what you read on pakistan-facts.com also runs on Dawn and International News Agencies websites.. :halo: According to your theory It seems Pakistani newspaper dawn is also against Pakistan.
Pakistani papers have been accused of not favoring the interest of the nation in the past... they rather write on stories coming from the neighboring media rather than do their own research and put interest and national security of Pakistan as priority.
