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Friday, 21 September 2007

Troubles in Bhaarat due to not paying attention to Chanakya Niti - 1

Chankaya has said long time ago that a person from foreign country should not be given top position in the country. If such person is to be given high position, then he / she has to go through a long process of verification and conversion to prove his / her loyalty to the country, its religion, its culture, its language, its traditions etc.

It seems that Bharatiya people have forgotten the wisdom of Chanakya Niti and has promoted a Christian lady to a higher position in Bhaarat who was just a restaurant maid and has spoken many kinds of lies about his qualifications and about many other facts of her life. As Sonia / Maino’s name is associated with Nehru Gandhi family, she has been given the top most position in the country. Nehru Gandhi persons were curse for Bhaarat so Sonia is also proving curse for Bhaarat keeping the tradition of her family.

She belongs to Christian faith, which is not the main faith of the country. Christianity has destroyed many religions and cultures through out his history. This uneducated maid lady, using her top position in Bhaarat is bent upon destroying the ancient religion and culture of Bhaarat. The first Speaker of parliament of Independent Bhaarat made a comment in inauguration speech that it was the greatest thing that Bhaarat became slave of British people. There are still many persons in Bhaarat who believe that it was the greatest thing for Bhaarat to become slave of British people. Such people are still mentally slave people and still trying to be slave people of British people by other ways by adopting every thing British like language, way of living and dressing up, education, manners, behaviour etc.

Such people consider every Bhaaratiya thing may be language, religion, culture, traditions, foods, ethos, manners etc. of inferior quality and they are helping the foreign Christian lady in destroying Bhaaratiya religion, culture and languages etc.

Cross-marked Rupee Coin
3 days mourning, Padmshri to Glady Staines and Cross marked Rupee Coins: Who instructed for 3 days mourning in Hindu Bhaarat on the death of Pope? Would this be done on the death of Hindu or any other religious leaders? Glady Staines ’s only achievement is that he was converting Hindus to Christianity. Is Padmshri Galdystaines not converting tribal of Orissa? Glady Staines was awarded the high award of Bharat for converting Hindus to Christianity. Instead of putting the Hindu religious marks on coins, Sonia put cross on Bhaaratiya coins. Even many Christian countries do not put cross on their currency.

http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/112042007.htm

How the ordinary Bhaartiya people feel about the act of slave govt. of a foreign slave lady

bhavani nirmal <bonnie605@yahoo.com>

With 80% of the population professing Hindu faith, how could we allow a wing of government of India have the
audacity to attack our sacred avatar: Rama. Who gave this Parsi the courage to file such a document with
the highest court of the country? Some heads have to roll at least symbolically for this affront to our faith and withdrawal of the affidavit without a public apology to the Hindus is not an acceptable action. Where are the Hindus on the cabinet of Man Mohan Singh, the members of our parliament in the ruling coalition, the state governments who did not say anything about this? I did not hear any loud protests from them. Where is the media? Have they all become impotent or lackeys of foreign faiths?

'The leadership of the Congress party and the UPA government has poured contempt on the religious sentiments of crores of Hindus all over the world'.

Setusamudram project a conspiracy against Hindus: Puri seer

Newkerala.com, Sep 15, 2007

Puri, Sep 15 : Puri Goberdhan Peeth Sankaracharya Swamy Neeschalananda Saraswati today alleged that the attempt to destroy the Ramsethu for the Setusamudram shipping canal project was a ''conspiracy'' against Hindu ethos and religious beliefs.

In a statement here, the Puri seer, quoting Hindu religious scripts, said Bhagwan Ram had constructed the Setu in Tretya Yug to reach Lanka to free his wife Sita.

The Shankaracharya said if anyone tried to destroy the Setu, the person should be ousted from the country.

He urged all the other Sankaracharyas to fight against such move.

http://news.hinduworld.com/click_frameset.php?ref_url=%2Findex.php%3F&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newkerala.com%2Foct.php%3Faction%3Dfullnews%26id%3D722

Ram bhakt in foreign land and Ramdrohi in Bharatbhumi! Why Valmiki was, perhaps, the first great astronomer and that his study of planetary configurations has stood the test of time. Even the latest computer software corroborated his astronomical calculations, proving that he did not commit any error. Shabari is stated to be belonging to Bheel tribe and the army of Shri Ram, which succeeded in defeating Ravana. Ram’s army was also formed by various tribals from Central and South Bhaarat . Facts, events and other relevant details relating to the life of Shri Ram are the common heritage of all the Bhaaratiyas.
http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/102062007.htm

What would an Italian Christian lady know about Ram? Sonia was born in Italy and Bhagwaan Ram in Hindustan . Hence, there is little possibility of her knowing anything about the existence of Lord Ram," Modi had told a tribal rally at Mandvi in Surat district.

"Our faith is Hinduism and we do not need a certificate from anyone on Lord Ram's existence."

Causing injuries to Majority community by govt. dominated by foreign Christian lady

A Central Government-approved affidavit claimed before the Supreme Court that there is no ‘historic’ or ‘scientific’ evidence of the existence of the Maryada Purushottom. This contemptuous attitude towards Hindu civilization’s greatest moral exemplar has caused shock all over the Hindu universe, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, to Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, Myanmar, Kampuchea, Indonesia, Bali, Malaysia, Nepal, Java, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand; regions whose national culture has been shaped by the benign presence of Shri Rama.

There is a new and escalating insensitivity in Bhaaratiya secular thought, which not only insistently neglects the sensibilities of the majority community, but, worse, appears eager to cause injury to such sentiments. Bhaaratiya’s opportunistic political secularists - as distinct from those who are, in fact and practice, actually wedded to the secular ideology - feel that they cannot sufficiently proclaim their secularism without displaying at least a measure of contempt for Hindu beliefs and practices.

The legend of Ram and Ramayana - archaeological evidence or no archaeological evidence - has primal resonances in the civilisation, culture and multiple identities, not only of Bhaarat and among Hindus, but among the people of the entire South and South-East Asian region, and occasionally well beyond. Many people would recall watching films and theatrical performances - Ram Lilas - based on Ramayan from earliest childhood, and one of the most exciting scenes was the vaanar sena building the bridge to Lanka with rocks inscribed with the name of their Lord. These are images embedded in the consciousness of millions across Bhaarat and beyond, and to trivialise this by anti Hindus, Christians and phony pseudo seculars is to misunderstand the very nature of governance.

There is an increasing fraud and dishonesty at the core of the Bhaaratiya secular establishment.

The members of the UPA government in Bhaarat, seem to be bent upon removing the Ram Sethu, one of the holiest Hindu sites. Most of the proponents of this destruction-project are Phoney-Liberal politicians, who have their interest, in promoting the welfare of the minority communities, at the cost of the Hindus. There are plenty of Phoney-Liberals in Bhaarat, who are willing to defend the minorities and speak for them. But they have neither interest nor any sympathy for the Hindus. Their hypocrisy is pathetic and a fraud against the Hindus, for which these politicians should feel ashamed of themselves, but they never feel embarrassed nor humiliated, even though the Hindu always comes out at the short end of the stick, as a result of their phony-liberal bias.

One of these Phony-Liberal politicians is a well-known member of the Congress Party, by name Ambika Soni, who is also a Christian lady. Ambika Soni has been close to the Gandhi family, for a long time, first time to Sanjay Gandhi, and now to Sonia Gandhi. She enjoys considerable power and influence in the Congress Party. Several Hindu leaders are unhappy at the positions that she takes, with respect to the issues of the Hindus, which are generally anti-Hindus. Her motivation appears to be anti-Hindu. But that is not her Ace-Card. Her Ace-Card is her mastery of Double-Talk that is saying one thing, and doing quite the opposite.

Why are so many Hindus of Bhaarat and of the world, tolerating this great outrage against the Hindu? Why are they not raising more hell than what they are doing at the present time? Why are most Hindus afraid to take a stand against these Phony-Liberal politicians, who have never been accused of being either smart or brave, they are purely opportunists? It is not impossible to change their mind or their decisions. How can we Hindus tolerate this outright-outrage against our Hindu religion? How can we allow these politicians to wreck our religion? We Hindus cannot abandon our mission of defending the Ram Sethu.

If more powerful marching, picketing, boycotting, and sit-ins etc don't come forth soon, then it would appear like another " Chamberlain-Moment " ( that is, the moment of Neville Chamberlain, the ex-prime minister of UK, during World War II ), who capitulated to Adolf Hitler.

It would then confirm the real story of the Hindu, that the Hindus are political prisoners in Bhaarat.

Sonia or any other foreign person must not be at the top position in the country. Such persons would bring destruction of Bhaarat.

Sunday, 16 September 2007

What is media and who owns media in Bhaarat - By Niranjan Shah

I have come across some interesting information about the ownership of media in Bhaarat. What is media? Media is plural of medium. Mass media is the term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). The word media was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks and of mass-circulation newspapers and magazines. This includes messages that are distributed through the technologies, principally text in books, study guides and computer networks; sound in audio-tapes and broadcast: pictures in video-tapes and broadcast; text, sound and/or pictures in a teleconference. The means by which information is distributed such as print, broadcast, CD-ROM, World Wide Web, and so forth is also Media.

Mass media in Bhaarat is that part of the Indian media which aims to reach a wide audience. Besides the news media, which includes print, radio and television, the Internet is playing an

increasing role, along with the growth of the Indian blogging community. Compared with many other developing countries, the Indian press is relatively unfettered, except for obstacles in the way of setting up media companies which were part of the pre-1990 license Raj.

In 2001, India had 45,974 newspapers, including 5,364 daily newspapers published in over 100 languages. The largest number of newspapers were published in Hindi (20,589), followed by English (7,596), Marathi (2,943), Urdu (2,906), Bengali (2,741), Gujarati (2,215), Tamil (2,119), Kannada (1,816), Malayalam (1,505) and Telugu (1,289). The Hindi daily press has a circulation of over 23 million copies, followed by English with over 8 million copies.

There are several major publishing groups in India, the most prominent among them being the Times of India Group, the Indian Express Group, the Hindustan Times Group, The Hindu group, the Anandabazar Patrika Group, the Eenadu Group, the Malayalam Manorama Group, the Mathrubhumi group, the Sahara group, the Bhaskar group, and the Dainik Jagran group.

India has more than 40 domestic news agencies. The Express News Service, the Press Trust of India , and the United News of India are among the major news agencies. Let us see the ownership of different media agencies.

NDTV: A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan . Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, General Secretary of Communist party of India .

India Today which used to be the only national weekly who supported BJP is now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing.

CNN-IBN: This is 100 percent funded by Southern Baptist Church with its branches in all over the world with HQ in US. The Church annually allocates $800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian head is Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.

Times group list:

Times Of India , Mid-Day, Nav-Bharth Times, Stardust, Femina, Vijaya Times, Vijaya Karnataka, Times now (24- hour news channel) and many more. Times Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. “World Christian Council” does 80 percent of the Funding, and an Englishman and an Italian equally share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close relative of Sonia Gandhi.

Star TV: It is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters Pontificial Church Melbourne .

Hindustan Times: Owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in Collobration with Times Group.

The Hindu:

English daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne , Switzerland . Indian Express: Divided into two groups.

The Indian Express and new Indian Express (southern edition). Acts Ministries has major stake in the Indian Express and later is still with the Indian counterpart.

Eeenadu: Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao. Ramoji Rao is connected with film industry and owns a huge studio in Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra Jyothi: The Muslim party of Hyderabad known as MIM along with a Congress Minister has purchased this Telgu daily very recently.

The Statesman: It is controlled by Communist Party of India . Kairal TV: It is controlled by Communist party of India (Marxist)

Mathrubhoomi: Leaders of Muslim League and Communist leaders have major investment.

Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle: Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company with its chief Editor M.J. Akbar.

The ownership explains the control of media in India by foreigners. The result is obvious. — Grandpa’s blessings

http://www.indiatribune.com/popuparticle.aspx?Article_ID=68268/23/2007 11:53:59 AM

Poor Hindus

Devendra Singh <devendra60@hotmail.com>


Once Robert Clive was asked as to how he conquered India with the help of some dozen Britishers. He said
Hindus could be bought with money and Muslims with women. He said "I did both". And British ruled India
for 300 years. When West Bengal was reeling under famine and 3 million people lost their lives, the
British exported rice from India . Anything more is required to show the cowardice of Hindus?"


Hindus continue to be slave of multi-national companies that bait them with seemingly good money and 'loyal' Hindus continue to lick their boots with passion. They have no time for their family and none for contributing something positive to their culture. They are making their careers but unmaking their children. Why we always want to be led by foreigners is a question every Hindu should ponder.

Devendra

Pro-Hindu Journalists

Pro – Hindu people talk about learning media skills or least sending their own children to learn journalistic skills Before having Hindu media, Hindus people must first need to learn to acquire the skills by doing courses and other ways of learning media and presentation techniques.

Getting the skills is the least of the problems. There are many Hindu journalists in India . And even if you have to train them, that too is pretty easy to do. Journalists can be trained on-the-job.

To get skilled personnel is the least of the problems. The biggest problem is getting the right media house.

Hindus have plenty of money and if they want they can buy a media house but even then they need creative skills to sell pro - Hindu news because you can't or shouldn't expect loyalty out of Hindus just to sustain a Hindu media house juts for the sake of it being Hindu. Quality and creativity sells which should be the weapon to the beat all other media houses.

Francois Gautier has started a Journalism School in India with the help of??? to train pro-Hindu Journalists… at Bangalore .

We all know this. Question is, why can't there be a media at par with IBN/NDTV / STAR / Indian express etc, which is controlled by Hindus? Why can't Pioneer, Organiser, Panchajanya become worldwide? There is anti Hindu media in Bhaarat, that does not mean that they cannot give the news about military along with Bollywood news.

In one of his interview Kalam has said that in our desi journals and media people still not represent a country of a billion people.

The Indian media has no ethics & has been anti Hindu for a long time especially NDTV. It is sad that we as Hindus cannot/ do not have our own TV Channel to correct the aberrations & project patriotism / Nationalism along with our ancient culture.

Journalism course can be same as it is in US or other Israel , etc.

When a person is pro-Vedic by nature and outlook, then he/she will look at the events in the Vedic light, and provide news and commentary to serve Vedic dharma and Rashtra interests.

Money generated from donations could be used for scholarship for journalism degrees.

Are some people saying that no university in Bharat offers a course in journalism?

If so, then we have to begin it somewhere.

We also need Vedic media of all kinds.

Many Vedic leaders with different abilities need to unite to make things happen.

Therefore, like minded people need to meet, discuss, figure solutions, decide actions, and do what they can. This is all with the attitude of - karma Nye vaa dhikaaraste, maa phaleshhu kadaachana.

For Stopping Conversion

The only solution, and probably the cheapest and fastest is to create our own Hindu media which will take the so called secular media head on. All these issues of forced conversions, Setu Samudram are NOT highlighted by the existing media. The anti Hindu media led by Christian fanatics are having a free run.
It is absolutely amazing that a giant organisation like RSS has got only two weekly news papers, ORGANISER & PANCHAJANYA which has got a circulation of few thousands.
Why can't we have media of the size and power of IBN, STAR, Indian Express etc? We are all intelligent people. If VHP can collect 2000 crores to build the ram temple, why can't they collect money to start some daily papers from the major cities of Bhaarat and a 24 hour news channel in Bhaarat? Every single news channel is busy spreading lies about Hindus. CNN/IBN & STAR, NDTV are the worst.
The frustration which we are venting out in this forum is fine but we need a BIG voice. Time is fast running out for Hindus.
There are news papers like PIONEER which are on our side. If they are funded properly they can take on the anti Hindu media.

John Kenneth Galbraith had called India a functioning anarchy.

During his term as the USA ambassador to India , or just after it, the late John Kenneth Galbraith had called India a functioning anarchy. Here is what exactly he meant by this term.

There are some things you say to attract attention. I wanted to emphasise the point, which would be widely accepted, that the success of India did not depend on the government. It depended on the energy, ingenuity and other qualifications of the Indian people. And the Indian quality to put ideas into practice. I was urging an obvious point that the progress of India did not depend on the government, as important as that might be, but was enormously dependent on the initiative, individual and group - of the Indian people. I feel the same way now (as I did some forty years ago) but I would even emphasise it more. We've seen many years of Indian progress, and that is attributable to the energy and genius of the Indian people and the Indian culture.
Galbraith, John Kenneth, in an interview in Outlook, August 20, 2001, on his comment that India is a functioning anarchy.

Pro- Hindu – minded people should put their ingenuity for promoting Hindu causes by starting pro-Hindu media and educational institutions along with earning money

Wednesday, 12 September 2007

Why the Ram Setu must not be destroyed? - Tarun Vijay

Sethusamudram, a project to create alternative shorter route for ships to cross the Gulf of Mannar, is a wonderful idea -- one which is more than 150 years old. The channel, originally an idea of a British commander named A D Taylor was put forth in 1860. In 1955, the Government of India set up the Sethusamudram project committee to look into the feasibility of the project and five routes were discussed till 2001 but nothing happened. The National Democratic Alliance government sanctioned a few crore rupees to study the project but before a final decision on the route could be taken, the government lost power.

The official web site of the project says, 'Ships originating from the west of India and destined for Chennai, Ennore, Vishakapatnam, Paradeep, Haldia and Kolkata have to travel around the Sri Lankan coast resulting in increase of travel distance and time. Apart from this ships belonging to Indian Navy and Coast Guard need also to traverse around Sri Lanka. In order to reduce the steaming distances between the east and west coast of India and to improve the navigation within territorial waters of India, a navigation channel connecting the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay through Adam's Bridge has been envisaged so that the ships moving between the east and west coasts of India need not go around Sri Lanka.' The total cost of the project is Rs 2,427 crores (Rs 24.27 billion).

But due to political expediency and a pathetic problem of a 'secular amnesia' about heritage matters, it has got a controversial hue, which could have been avoided if some transparency was maintained and points of collective sensitivities and faith were not ignored. The project is fine, but the present route is not, as it involves destruction of a bridge believed to have been built by Lord Rama and Muslims and Christians believe it to be Adam's creation.

Foreigners and Indians alike have described it as Rama's bridge since ancient times in their maps and travelogues. The first time someone called it Adam's Bridge was in 1804 by James Rennell, the first surveyor general of the East India Company. Even if the Government of India prefers to use the name Adam's Bridge, it simply proves that not only Hindus but Muslims and Christians too have a reverence for the bridge it is going to destroy.

Now when the media and political leaders are busy with the Uttar Pradesh election and exit polls, the Sethusamudram dredgers are busy destroying a great world heritage site India has.

The Ram Setu or Adam's Bridge connects India's Rameshwaram to Sri Lanka's Talaimannar. A movement has begun to safeguard it at the shores of Rameshwaram on April 18. Two former judges of the Supreme Court, Justice K T Thomas and Justice V R Krishna Iyer, none of them close to the saffron side, have warned the government against destroying the Ram Setu.

It is ironical that a government which changes the metro rail route to protect the Qutub Minar, built with the material of destroyed temples, stops a corridor to protect the Taj Mahal's surroundings and spends crores of rupees to showcase ancient potteries and jewellery in heavily guarded museums, is destroying a unique symbol of national identity and an icon well preserved in our minds since ages. Even a child knows that a bridge was built by the friends of Lord Rama using floating stones and Rama's army marched over it to Lanka to rescue Sita and destroy the evil regime of Ravana.

Hence during Dussehra every year and in dance dramas depicting Rama's life enacted across the globe, specially in East Asia, they never ever fail to mention the Setu Bandhan or the construction of Rama's bridge. Apart from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata also refers to the continued protection of Nala Setu following Sri Rama's command. Kalidasa's Raghuvamsham also refers to the Setu. So does the Skanda Purana (III 1.2.1-114), the Vishnu Purana (IV 4.40-49), the Agni Purana (V-XI), the Brahma Purana (138.1-40).

That is the memory so beautifully adopted by the Geological Survey of India in its logo, which describes India in this line etched at the bottom of its insignia -- Aasetu Himachal, meaning India is spread between the Bridge and the Himalayas. That is the Ram Setu Bridge on the southern tip of our motherland, an identity of the nation, under destruction now.

The credit of digging up material regarding the Ram Setu and providing impeccable factual content goes to Kalyan Raman, a former senior executive of the Asian Development Bank. He astounded even the government with his material on the entire project. His findings have stirred up protests from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha. Ashok Singhal of the VHP is spearheading a movement to protect the Ram Setu. He addressed a big public meeting in Rameshwaram with religious heads and Dr Subramanian Swamy. BJP leader and former Union human resources development minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi has written to the prime minister, urging him to stop the destruction of the great heritage site.

The government, very 'secular and fair' indeed, tries not to remember or give any credence to what Hindus, Muslims and Christians believe, But this is what NASA says about the bridge, 'Exploring space with a camera by NASA's [193] Gemini XI, this photograph from an altitude of 410 miles encompasses all of India, an area of 1,250 000 square miles,' George M Low, then the deputy director, Manned Spacecraft Center, NASA, notes. 'Bombay is on the west coast, directly left of the spacecraft's can-shaped antenna, New Delhi is just below the horizon near the upper left. Adam's Bridge between India and Ceylon, at the right, is clearly visible...' We can see the picture dramatically resembles the description given in Kalidasa's Raghuvamsham. Kalidasa wrote, (sarga 13): 'Rama, while returning from Sri Lanka in Pushpaka Vimaana told Sita: "Behold, Sita, My Setu of mountains dividing this frothy ocean is like the milky way dividing the sky into two parts".'

The Encyclopedia Britannica describes the bridge thus, 'Adam's Bridge also called Rama's Bridge, chain of shoals, between the islands of Mannar, near northwestern Sri Lanka, and Rameswaram, off the southeastern coast of India.'

Apart from such issues of heritage and belief, there are genuine concerns regarding security and the tsunamis' impact increasing in case the Ram Setu is destroyed. If the new channel is created through the present Rama's bridge, international ships would pass through it making a de facto international boundary between India and Sri Lanka, facilitating an increased alien presence, burdening our navy to a great extent.

So far the sea between India and Sri Lanka has been recognised as historic waters, though the United States has been pressurising to have it declared as international waters and said in a naval notification in 2005 that it does not accept the sea between India and Sri Lanka as 'historic'. The US declaration and the role of the Tuticorin Port Trust, the nodal agency to implement the Sethu Samudram Canal Project coupled with the haste with which the project was inaugurated, has given rise to many unanswered questions.

The US Navy operational directive refusing to accept the sea between India and Sri Lanka as 'historic' was made on June 23, 2005. The Prime Minister's Office sent some queries in March 2005 to N K Raghupathy, chief of the Tuticorin Port Trust. He sent answers to the PMO's queries on June 30, 2005 and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi inaugurated the project on July 2, 2005. Why were the queries sent to the TPT and not to an agency which had scientific authority to look into the geological and maritime aspects of the project? Why did the prime minister and the UPA chairperson rush to inaugurate the project without, prima facie, having the time to look into the answers given by the TPT chief? Why was the present route okayed which essentially requires the destruction of the Ram Setu, while other options, closer to Dhanushkodi, which did not touch the Ram Setu were ignored?

Local fishermen, Hindus, Muslims and Christians alike oppose the present route and are demanding alternative channels, which are available. They say the present channel would destroy marine life and corals. This will kill the trade in shankas (shells) that has a turnover in excess of Rs 150 crore (Rs 1.5 billion) per annum. Invaluable thorium deposits would be affected, which are too important for our nuclear fuel requirements.

Professor Tad Murthy, the world renowned tsunami expert, who advised the Government of India on the tsunami warning system and edited the Tsunami Journal for over 20 years, has also warned that the present Setu Samudram route may result in tsunami waves hitting Kerala more fiercely. In a reply to a query regarding the Sethusanmudram's impact, he wrote, 'During the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, the southern part of Kerala was generally spared from a major tsunami, mainly because the tsunami waves from Sumatra region travelling south of the Sri Lankan island, partially diffracted northward and affected the central part of the Kerala coast. Since the tsunami is a long gravity wave (similar to tides and storm surges) during the diffraction process, the rather wide turn it has to take spared the south Kerala coast. On the other hand, deepening the Sethu Canal might provide a more direct route for the tsunami and this could impact south Kerala.'

The issue concerns us all, and should be taken up as Indians, without getting entangled in party lines and political games. The Ram Setu or Adam's Bridge belongs to all humanity, being an important heritage site; hence the government should not allow it to become another issue affecting Hindu sensitivities. Nobody is opposing the Sethu Samudram Project, only a realignment of the route is being asked, as the present one destroys the Ram Setu.