BOMBAY, India -- When a restaurant ...

BOMBAY, India -- When a restaurant called "Hitler's Cross" render free of accessed four days ago in a Bombay suburb the city's small Jewish community was outraged, still there were few other objections.

possessor Puneet Sablok insisted then -- and still does -- that the name and theme of his novel eatery is meant only to attract attention, with its placards of Adolf Hitler and swastikas.

"There is no intention to afflict anyone," Sablok said of his spacious restaurant, which aids pastries, pizza and salad in Navi Mumbai, a northern suburb of Bombay, also known as Mumbai.

Swastika is Hindu token Holocaust awareness in India is limited.

Hitler is regarded by way of many as just another historical figure.

The swastika, reviled in many parts of the world, is also an ancient Hindu type and displayed all over to bring casualty

There are just 5500 hebrews in India, and all still 1,000 live in Bombay.

"It's really made the bulk of mankind very upset that a living body responsible for the massacre of 6 million hebrews can be glorified," Elijah Jacob, single of the community's leaders, said.

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