On a recent trip in India to a nearby city, I came across the road side sign in the following picture that got my attention.
The swastika symbol used by the Nazi's and Hitler usually brings up negative connotations for us westerners today. However, most Hindu's regard a variation of it as a good symbol. I asked one of my coworkers about it and he remembered that it was used negatively by the Nazi's, but his first thought is good. The sign painted on the old building on the roadside is just an advertisement for a roofing company called Swastik roofing. My landlord even mentioned that the symbol is especially considered good luck for starting and ending major or important projects. She begins all of her new accounting books with the big swastika on the first page. I remember now reading about the swastika being used for religion and good luck long before the Nazi's ever thought of adopting it. **It was pointed out to me that the NAZI version of the swastika and the Hindu version are different. One version has the arms pointing clockwise while the other one is counter-clockwise.