11-08-2005, 09:00 AM
I happened to see the recorded live-telecast of the cermony in our local BAPS center and man.. it looks impressive at night with changing colours,musical (based on vedas) fountains and about 90000 trees in the whole area.
It's built on 100 acers, with 200 crore rupees and has IMAX teather with a boat ride taking you thru the Indian(hindu) history.
What I found distateful was the speech of PM.he kept on repeatng the same 'non-violance', 'Indian tradition of respect of all religion', and 'secularism' etc.. BS like a congressi, I hope he has the guts to do the same when he goes a church or a mosque.
The cermony started with Vande mataram and ended with Jana gana mana...
That apart..this one is more impressive then the one they have in london/Gujarat/Chicago and one comming up in LA(construction started after lots of protest from locals) in near future.
But in nutshell...it does give one pride about being a hindu.
Taj never tempted me to visit Delhi.. but this one will sure....
Jay Smawminaray.
It's built on 100 acers, with 200 crore rupees and has IMAX teather with a boat ride taking you thru the Indian(hindu) history.
What I found distateful was the speech of PM.he kept on repeatng the same 'non-violance', 'Indian tradition of respect of all religion', and 'secularism' etc.. BS like a congressi, I hope he has the guts to do the same when he goes a church or a mosque.
The cermony started with Vande mataram and ended with Jana gana mana...
That apart..this one is more impressive then the one they have in london/Gujarat/Chicago and one comming up in LA(construction started after lots of protest from locals) in near future.
But in nutshell...it does give one pride about being a hindu.
Taj never tempted me to visit Delhi.. but this one will sure....
Jay Smawminaray.