Lady Taliban goes on....
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Statesman News Service
NEW DELHI, Dec. 6: Floating stones have no link with Ram Sethu. Even if there is, as those opposing the controversial Sethusamudram Canal project claim, the Centre is not aware of any expert opinion or evidence that links the floating stones or any other ancient stones with Ram Sethu.
This is exactly what the Centre told the Lok Sabha today in reply to a question by a member, Mr Hemlal Murmu, regarding floating stones.
The question was if the government is aware that the ancient stones of the Ram Sethu are available in many states, especially in Giridh district of Jharkhand and those stones float on water like a paper boat.
Replying to this, Union minister for tourism and culture, Ms Ambika Soni, said: âThe Archeological Survey of India (ASI) is not aware of any expert opinion or evidence linking the Giridh or any other ancient stones with Ram Sethu.â
Mr Murmu also asked if according to experts the aforesaid stones were part of the Ram Sethu till 1480 (B.C.) and British expert CD Maclin has mentioned this in his book âManual of the Administration of the Madras Presidencyâ published in 1903.
To this, the minister admitted that the book âManual of the Administration of the Madras Presidencyâ edited by CD Maclean and first published in 1885 makes a mention of Ram Sethu and the line of rocks which were carried from Himalayas. But the ASI is not aware of any expert opinion or evidence linking floating stones with Ram Sethu.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?...ess=1&id=179475
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Lady Taliban (who is a catholic) is joined by a male comrade:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday questioned the existence of Lord Ram.
"Ram was born in the imagination of poets and Ram Sethu is a natural formation under the sea," Bhattacharjee told a meeting to mark the 15th anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid.
<i>{At least, the Laal-Salaam of Nandigram and Haraa-Salaam of Kidderpur Kolkata were real events, not an imagination of any poet.!}</i>
He said the Sethusamudram project was being opposed by the Sangh Parivar on religious ground, but it was vital for economic development of the region.
Reacting to Bhattacharjee's remarks, state Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Rahul Sinha on Friday said the remarks were an attempt to appease the Muslim vote bank after the fiasco in Nandigram [Images].
"Ram is a matter of faith and Communists had always hated god-men. They even spread calumnies against Tagore and Swami Vivekananda," he said.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/dec/07ram.htm
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In fact the angreji papers or any online resource does not mention Buddhadeb's (what a name! Parents must be ashamed) complete statement.
Hindi, Bangali news papers - print version - of today mention:
He also criticised Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee - saying thankfully Mukherjee's venom did not spread in Bengal.
He also pooh-pooh'ed Bankim Chandra Chatterjee - saying although the novelist was a great man, but how could he fall to the level of writing a work like Anand Math!!!
The novel Anand Math is where Vande Matram comes from, and it describes a Hindu freedom movement led by armed Sannyasi-s against the islamic tyranny in Bengal.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->âFloating stones have no link with Sethuâ
Statesman News Service
NEW DELHI, Dec. 6: Floating stones have no link with Ram Sethu. Even if there is, as those opposing the controversial Sethusamudram Canal project claim, the Centre is not aware of any expert opinion or evidence that links the floating stones or any other ancient stones with Ram Sethu.
This is exactly what the Centre told the Lok Sabha today in reply to a question by a member, Mr Hemlal Murmu, regarding floating stones.
The question was if the government is aware that the ancient stones of the Ram Sethu are available in many states, especially in Giridh district of Jharkhand and those stones float on water like a paper boat.
Replying to this, Union minister for tourism and culture, Ms Ambika Soni, said: âThe Archeological Survey of India (ASI) is not aware of any expert opinion or evidence linking the Giridh or any other ancient stones with Ram Sethu.â
Mr Murmu also asked if according to experts the aforesaid stones were part of the Ram Sethu till 1480 (B.C.) and British expert CD Maclin has mentioned this in his book âManual of the Administration of the Madras Presidencyâ published in 1903.
To this, the minister admitted that the book âManual of the Administration of the Madras Presidencyâ edited by CD Maclean and first published in 1885 makes a mention of Ram Sethu and the line of rocks which were carried from Himalayas. But the ASI is not aware of any expert opinion or evidence linking floating stones with Ram Sethu.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?...ess=1&id=179475
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Lady Taliban (who is a catholic) is joined by a male comrade:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday questioned the existence of Lord Ram.
"Ram was born in the imagination of poets and Ram Sethu is a natural formation under the sea," Bhattacharjee told a meeting to mark the 15th anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid.
<i>{At least, the Laal-Salaam of Nandigram and Haraa-Salaam of Kidderpur Kolkata were real events, not an imagination of any poet.!}</i>
He said the Sethusamudram project was being opposed by the Sangh Parivar on religious ground, but it was vital for economic development of the region.
Reacting to Bhattacharjee's remarks, state Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Rahul Sinha on Friday said the remarks were an attempt to appease the Muslim vote bank after the fiasco in Nandigram [Images].
"Ram is a matter of faith and Communists had always hated god-men. They even spread calumnies against Tagore and Swami Vivekananda," he said.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/dec/07ram.htm
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In fact the angreji papers or any online resource does not mention Buddhadeb's (what a name! Parents must be ashamed) complete statement.
Hindi, Bangali news papers - print version - of today mention:
He also criticised Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee - saying thankfully Mukherjee's venom did not spread in Bengal.
He also pooh-pooh'ed Bankim Chandra Chatterjee - saying although the novelist was a great man, but how could he fall to the level of writing a work like Anand Math!!!
The novel Anand Math is where Vande Matram comes from, and it describes a Hindu freedom movement led by armed Sannyasi-s against the islamic tyranny in Bengal.