Planned political attack on Chidambaram Temple by Karunanidhi

Planned political attack on Chidambaram Temple
By V Sundaram

An atheistic and anti-Hindu DMK government has taken over the Chidambaram temple with rational Dravidian delight. We have a Chief Minister who took special delight in saying ‘Hindu means thief’.

Thus spoke Karunanidhi, the great Tamil scholar and the sole leader of all Tamils in the universe and beyond. To back his discovery, he invoked Periyar, who we all know, is the sole repertoire and indeed the fountainhead of all such absurdities bordering on banalities and beyond. Later he had the temerity to ask: ‘Who is Lord Rama? Where did he take his engineering degree from?’ The official take-over of the Chidambaram Temple by the government of Tamilnadu has shocked and outraged the conscience of millions and millions of Hindus all over the world.

In WP No. 18248 of 2006 and MP Nos. 1/06, 1/07, MP Nos. 2/2006 and 1/2008 in which Sri Sabanayagar Temple, represented by secretary of Podu Dikshidars, Chidambaram was the petitioner and the State of Tamilnadu and some others were the respondents, the Madras High Court have issued Orders to the following effect on 2-2-2009:

* WP No. 18248/2006 filed by Secretary of Podu Dikshidar, Chidambaram is dismissed.

* The 2nd Respondent shall issue appropriate direction to the Executive Officer Mr R Jayachandran or the present Executive Officer to administer Sri Sabanayagar Temple, Chidambaram in accordance with the provisions of HR&CE Act and the Appendix to the Office Proceedings No 52754/82/L1 dated 5-8-1997 within a period of 1 week from the date of receipt of copy of this order.

* The Writ Petitioner Podu Dikshidars shall render all cooperation to the Executive Officer in the proper administration of the temple in accordance with the Rules stipulated in the Appendix to the Office Proceedings No.52754/82/L1 dated 5-8-1987.

The famous Nataraja or Adavallan Temple at Chidambaram is in South Arcot District, Chit and Ambalam (the atmosphere of wisdom) is a public temple of great antiquity sacred to Saivites all over India. According to the South Arcot Manual of the year 1878, the area occupied by the temple is about 39 acres in the centre of the town. Of the five Lingams of Shiva, corresponding to the Panchbhutas: Earth, water, Light, Air and Akasa (Ether), the Lingam in this Temple is Akasa Lingam. In fact, no lingam exists but a curtain is hung before a wall on which some Beejaksharas were written and when people go to worship the curtain is withdrawn to see the lingam. Offerings are made before the curtain. This is generally known as ‘Chidambara Rahasyam’, the secret of Chidambaram. The Manual on page 401 refers to a legend going back to the fifth Manu, one of whose sons Swetha Varma was a leper and refused to rule over the country, the Kingdom of Gouda allotted to him by his father. Leaving his kingdom he went on a pilgrimage and came to Kancheepuram where he met a hunter who informed him that there was a famous Rishi nearby with tiger’s paws who lived in a jungle near a ‘Kovil’ where an invisible deity dwelt. Near the Kovil there was also a pool. Swetha Varma out of inquisitiveness met the Rishi who was called Vyagrapada. With his divine foresight the Rishi came to know of the arrival of Swetha Varma and asked him to bathe in the pool. Thereupon, the dreadful disease vanished and his skin obtained a golden hue. In consequence he was known thereafter as Hiranya Varma.

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In my considered view, this planned political attack on Chidambaram Temple and its sudden take-over by government brings to my mind the sad and savage story of Islamic Jihad in I History from 712 AD to 1761 AD. Will Durrant, in his internationally acclaimed book ‘THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION’, has stated: ‘The Islamic conquest of I is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from outside or multiplying within’. The Chidambaram Temple which has withstood the onslaught of several centuries has now become a Branch Office of the government. Sordid and petty men dressed in brief authority might be gloating over their temporary victory. The Due Process of Law is not yet complete and I have no doubt whatsoever that the Podu Dikshidars of Sri Sabanayagar Temple will ultimately get their due justice in keeping with the time-honoured principles of equity and natural justice even at the Level of the Divisional Bench of the Madras High Court itself.

The wicked attitude of the Tamilnadu government brings to my mind the timeless wisdom contained in the following Aesop’s Fable: ‘A WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him.’ He thus addressed him: ‘Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.’ ‘Indeed,’ bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, ‘I was not then born.’ Then said the Wolf, ‘You feed in my pasture.’ ‘No, good sir,’ replied the Lamb, ‘I have not yet tasted grass.’ Again said the Wolf, ‘You drink of my well.’ ‘No,’ exclaimed the Lamb, ‘I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.’ Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, ‘Well! I won’t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations.’ AN ANTI-HINDU TYRANT WILL ALWAYS FIND A PRETEXT FOR HIS TYRANNY.

Subramanian Swamy assaulted in Madras High Court

What do you get for standing up for the rights of Hindus in Bharat (misnomer: India) especially in Anti-Hindu Pro-LTTE communal bigot Karunanidhi's state of Tamil Nadu? You get what Janata Party president Dr. Subramanian Swamy got as a gratitude for tirelessly working for the cause of Hindus and national integration. In an unprecedented and despicable show of intolerance of some Anti-Brahmin prejudiced & Pro-LTTE terrorists lawyers, a bunch of racist losers, assaulted Dr. Swamy and hurled eggs and invectives on him at the Madras High Court hall in full view of a couple of judges.

Where are the calls for Article 355 now?

Where are the calls to stop Talibanization of Madras/Chennai?

There are severe terror threats to Hindu temples in the country particularly to God Shiv ji's Mandir in Kashi, God Shri Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, God Shri Krishna Mandir in Mathura and other important Mandir in South. There have been news of Tamil Nadu Government scam to grab the Temple lands. Anti-Hindu bigot Karunanidhi's government in collusion with Antonia Maino aka Sonia Gandhi's UPA government have been systematically destroying Hindu heritage from Shri Ram Setu to slandering Hindu Gods. Of course for them, Justice means Vengeance. Recent one is that Anti-Hindu bigot Government is trying to take over prestigious Chidambaram temple. Dr. Swamy is leading the fight in all these important issues including the latest one in which he has opposed the take over of Nataraja temple by Govt.

Opposing the takeover of the administration of the famous Nataraja temple in Chidambaram in Cuddalore district from Dikshitar community by the state government, Janata Party President Dr Subramanian Swamy has said that he would implead himself in an appeal proposed by the Dikshitars challenging a single bench Judge's order paving the way for the government take over.

Swamy contended that the judgement of the High Court was deficient and pointed out that a 1952 ruling by the court had held that it is a 'denominational' temple. This was not challenged further."Hence the single Judge verdict is hit by the doctrine of Res Judicata. The court has not property apprceciated the case," he said.

The court, in its order, rejected the plea of the Dikshitar community that the 1,500 year old temple was a private one and they had 'untrammeled rights'. it also upheld the appointment of an executive officer to administer the temple. Swamy said he was competent to file the petition as he had been a former law minister and handled a number of questions relating to temples and in protection of it before various forums.

Swamy said "a petition is pending before the Parliament petition committee,regarding temple affairs in Andhra Pradesh. I have got vast knowledge of this and have to free temples from the clutches of the government."

He pointed out that there is a fundamental difference between temples and masjids and churches. In temples, after 'Pranaprathishta' is done, the place becomes that of God, while it is not so in the others.

Stating that the charges levelled against Dikshitars have not been proved, he pointed out that there are many temples under the control of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments department, against which there are allegations.

"The government should concentrate on maintaining law and order and developing the economy. Instead they are trying to manage the temple," he said.

Swamy was here to attend a function at the Ramanujam centre in Sastra University.

In such an Anti-Hindu Talibanized India, I agree with Dr. Swamy that there is a dire need for ‘Hindu vote bank’ more than ever before to protect the rights of Hindus and radically demonized Brahmins.

Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy on Monday said the only way to counter vote-bank policies blindly pursued by governments and political parties was to develop a strong and formidable “Hindu vote bank.” It was the only way to check the “continued neglect and subjugation of Hindus and Hindu temples,” he said.

Dr. Swamy criticised the United Progressive Alliance government for its attempt to “bend over backwards” to protect mosques and churches while showing “utter indifference” to protect the Hindu shrines and sentiments.

He was addressing a convention organised by the Andhra Pradesh Hindu Temples Protection Committee.

Dr. Swamy said that though there were 42 mosques in Ayodhya where no prayers were offered, Muslims were laying claim to the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi alone.

Shame on you Karunanidhi and Government of Bharat!

Such Anti-Hindu Anti-Brahmin racist bigots should be debarred from practicing law and sent off to Sri Lanka to live with LTTE terrorist whom they love so much. They should be booked under treason and sedition charges!

1. Subramanian Swamy assaulted in Madras HC


2. Advocates assault Subramanian Swamy


3. Bench records attack on Swamy


4. Swamy assaulted in court hall


5. Subramanian Swamy assaulted in Madras HC


6. Lawyers hurl eggs at Swamy inside HC hall


7. Rotten egg attack on Swamy


8. Brutal fascism on display in "Rational,Progressive" Tamil Nadu


9. Advocates assault Subramanian Swamy

   Later in the evening, the Bench passed an order that was merely a recap of the incident. They directed the Registry to place a copy of their order before the Acting Chief Justice for appropriate action.
   
   In their order, the judges said that an unruly mob consisting of many advocates entered the court and shouted slogans in support of Sri Lankan Tamils.
   
   Some members assaulted Swamy.
   
   Similarly, some other members assaulted the police constables.
   
   Some threw rotten eggs inside the court hall and shouted filthy slogans. The slogans included `Brahmin dog down down’



10. HC Bench refers lawyers attack on Swamy to acting CJ

    Taking suo motu action, the Bench, in its brief order, narrated the violent incident inside the court hall, stating that a group of advocates entered inside the court hall, raised slogans against Dr Swamy and assaulted him.
    
    They threw eggs on him and abused him, saying ”Papara Naye Veliye Po” (You Brahmin dog...get out of the court), the Bench, comprising Justice P K Misra and Justice K Chandru said.



11. No law and order in Tamilnadu: Swamy


12. HC Bench refers lawyers attack on Swamy to acting CJ


13. Lawyer arrested for pelting eggs at Swamy

    The high court police on Wednesday night arrested a lawyer, Immanuel, in connection with the incident in which a group of lawyers hurled eggs at Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy inside the Madras high court hall on Tuesday.
    
    Earlier, assistant commissioner of police Khader Moideen lodged a complaint with the city commissioner of police against a group of advocates who had allegedly manhandled him before hurling eggs at Subramanian Swamy inside the high court.
    
    "We have photographs of the incident and we have identified some of the lawyers who led the attack against Subramaniam Swamy and the officer. We have not received any complaint from Subramaniam Swamy yet," a senior police officer said.

    Just take Suo Motto action as it is a cognizable offense, what complaint are these people waiting for? It happened in front of High Court Judges, tens of Police Officers and hundreds of citizens. How many more witnesses do you want?


14. No law and order in TN: Swamy

    Swamy said he would continue to appear in court for cases relating to the attack on his party's Madurai office a few months ago and the Chidambaram dikshithars' appeal against the high court order allowing the takeover of the Nataraja temple by the state government.
    
    He said Tamil Nadu had become a state where the provisions of the Constitution, including the freedom it guaranteed, were not enforceable due to "the atrocities committed by mercenaries of the LTTE". He suspected the hand of some political and radical outfits behind the attack on him.

    Artcile 355 should be implemented and President's rule should be enforced in Tamil Nadu.


15. Subramanian Swamy Wants Prez Rule in TN

    Addressing a press conference here, Dr Swamy said he would approach the Apex Court shortly to complain about the inability of the Tamil Nadu Government to carry out day-to-day administration, as required by the Constitution and call for imposition of President's Rule in the State.
    
    Citing Tuesday's attack against him in front of two Judges, he said even the High Court (HC) premises in the State was not "safe" and prayed to the court to get details about the steps taken by the Centre to dismiss the Tamil Nadu Government for the Constitutional breakdown and establish rule of law in the State.
    
    Dr Swamy would also ask the Supreme Court to seek details about the steps taken by the Central and State Governments for proper functioning of Madras High Court in the State.
    
    He demanded that 25 lawyers, who were responsible for the unruly behaviour inside the Court premises, should be arrested immediately.
    
    Alleging that some of the advocates who attacked him belonged to naxal groups, besides Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), PMK and Dravidar Kazhagam Parties, Dr Swamy demanded they should be debarred from attending the courts.
    
    He said the Indian national flag was burnt at least five times in the State in the recent times, educational institutions were closed and the people being taken for a ride under the pretext of organizing agitations in support of the banned LTTE and wanted to know the steps taken by the government to stop all these things in the State.
    
    The President Rule should be imposed in the State and the next elections held under the direct control of Central security forces, he added.



16. Utter lawlessness and chaos in Madras High Court: Not safe even inside the Court Hall because of so many unruly, lawless advocates -- V.SUNDARAM


17. Police, lawyers clash at Madras HC. For the pictures please click here.

    Pitched battles were fought outside the Madras high court on Thursday afternoon after the police arrested 17 lawyers for attacking Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy.
    
    Lawyers sympathetic to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Tuesday hurled rotten eggs at Swamy inside the court in the presence of the judges and shouted anti-India slogans.



18. Video: Police lathicharge the Pro-Terrorist-LTTE lawyers. These traitors got what they deserve, police ka danda up their LTTE ass.


19. Video: Police, lawyers clash outside Madras HC


20. 150 lawyers protest Madras HC violence, arrested

    Police arrested 150 lawyers in Chennai on Friday as protests continue to disrupt life in the state. The lawyers were taking out a protest march to the Tamil Nadu secretariat over the violence in the Madras High Court on Thursday, when rampaging lawyers and lathi wielding police fought pitched battles. The Tamil Nadu Bar Association president is among those arrested. Courts in Chennai remained closed today and lawyers were seen protesting outside the court premises, as well. Earlier in the day, the issue rocked Tamil Nadu assembly, leading to an en masse eviction of the entire opposition. The opposition was demanding that the question hour be postponed to discuss the mayhem on court premises.



21. HC orders probe, courts shut today

Rahul Gandhi takes Miliband on Poverty Tourism of India

Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Discovery of India’ is following such bizarrely unconventional ways that it is impossible not to subject it to public scrutiny.

-Let’s stop this poverty tourism, Sudheendra Kulkarni

Looks like Congress's allegedly college dropout heir apparent Raul Vinci aka Rahul Gandhi got bored of partying till 5 AM in the morning with his girlfriend Juvenitta, so he took his firangi gora friend David Miliband on Poverty Tourism of Bharat. I wonder what he must have told Mr. Miliband while exploitatively showcasing Bharat's rural poverty (following is a complete work of fiction):

Look Miliband, this is what you guys left us with and we have preserved it as it is for the 50 years of our rule. All for the benefit of tourists like you and of course us to get some Photo-Ops out of it. Also, for the benefit of other Brits and goras who can make poverty porn movies like Slumdog Millionaire. As the ever biased International media and movie industry will happily applaud and give out a few golden globes here and there for celebrating Bharat's overwhelming poverty. And Bharatvaasi are so low on self esteem that they are always looking out for any kind of recognition, no matter what. Even if it is for making fun of their own underbelly. You see my great Grandfather Jawahar Lal Nehru sowed such seeds that we are reaping its fruits now.

To make this possible we have never ending unrelenting cooperation from the sell out section of Bharatiya media which helps in creating such mindset. You see with our brand of Secular Government at helms which looses sleep for Muslims and claims that Muslims have first right on everything in Bharat, we allow Editorial Slandering of Hindu Symbols and Anti-Hindu bigots like MF Hussain, Teesta Setalvad, and M Karunanidhi to deride and vilify Hindu Gods and Goddess. Also, let people like Teesta Setalvad to rant their diatribe against Hindus openly with out punishment.

We can't let them do it alone, so we are also doing our part by destroying this bridge that these silly Hindus call Shri Ram Sethu and think that it is an ancient Engineering Marvel of some sort which is at least 15000 years old. What a bunch of fools, its just a bridge. What if its destruction will remove a natural blockade to stop another Tsunami or be an ecological disaster or a loss of world heritage or most importantly an irreplaceable loss to Hindu history. We don't care. Did the world care when those Bahamian Buddha statues were destroyed by the Taliban? Why couldn't that Hindu God, who is a myth by the way as per my mom's Government and Christian aunty Ambika Soni as your western and our leftist historians defamed the Hindu scriptures as mere mythology.... hey you, hawaldaar, what was that guy's name? Who sir? The one with bow and arrow they call Pur.. Purush... damn, what was it? I was just taught that word in my Fool the Hindus class. Purshottam (the epitome of righteous man) sir.... Yeah what is his name?.. Shri Ram sir. Yeah yeah, why couldn't he part the ocean like moses did to cross the red sea. I think that would have been more believable and green too. Of course, I believe that the latter didn't happen either as there wasn't any world before Jesus Christ. That is why we got so many missionaries in Bharat to save all these poor people and you will be happy to know that Church/Missionary organizations are the second largest land owners in Bharat after the Government. Thanks for starting the trend when your Grandfathers were ruling this nation. We also denied Hindus their fundamental right to worship by denying them land for Shri Amarnath Yatra. How selfish of them to ask for land for some Mandir? It is against Kashmiriyat you see. But still these buggers tried to carry out some nationalist Non-Cooperation movement which we tried to suppress by censoring the media and revoking their fundamental right to communicate by blocking SMSes. My grandmother's experience with Emergency helped us in putting such censorship. But they don't understand. How many times should we tell them that Muslims have first right on everything? Jesus Christ, these people have short memory or what. They so need to be saved!

We have to take them from Tainthood to Sainthood.

But rest was easy since we have already cleansed the NCERT books of all the nationalist values and Hindu history and made it a point to glorify the Babars, the Akbars, the Aurangzebs, and malign the Shivajis, the Bhagat Singhs, the Subhash Chandra Boses. Like I said in one of my Diwan-Ae-Aam with the poor people of Bharat, that other than my family no one else did anything for the Independence of Bharat. Why else, wouldn't you find any places named after other people. Those lazy bums didn't do anything, we had to do all the hard work and organize all the meetings. Transfer all the funds to Swiss bank accounts. That is why, you find most of the roads, the houses, the institutions, the schools, the colleges, the universities, the IIMs, the airports, the stadiums, the NGOs, the water cleansing plants, everything named after my great Grandfather, my Grandmother, my Father, my Mother and someone named MK Gandhi. Although I don't know what he has to do with our family. You know with success comes people who just steal your name and try to associate with you. Bloody moochers.

With the help of such deception and self-betrayal attitude of Hindus, it isn't hard to convince Bharatvaasi. Due to universal law of Pizza effect, they would believe anything you tell them. Especially when it comes from firangi's mouth like recent series by PBS on Bharat which made it a point to propagate the Myth of Aryan Invasion and openly taunted Hindus by calling Ayodhya a fairytale city.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy your tour of Incredible India and come back again when I am Prime Minister of Bharat and you are Prime Minister of Britain. Pope rules!

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I have nothing personal against Mr. Raul Vinci aka Rahul Gandhi but with the kind of public service job that he is aspiring for and with the kind of unjustified undemocratic nepotistic head start that he has over other very capable Bharatvaasi merely because he was born in the so-called Maino-Nehru-Ghandi family, he better be ready for such or even harsher criticism. Criticism is a part and parcel in any democracy especially when the person is a public figure. On a serious note, with such an immature childish attitude of going on poverty safari with foreign diplomats for PR, no sound educational background and no real credible public service experience, Raul doesn't even have 0.00000000001% of what it takes to run a country of 1 Billion (+ 50 Million illegal immigrants) people. With the sword of Radical Islam, Evangelical fundamentalists, Leftist Maoists and Pseudo-Secular extremist terror hanging on Bharat with whopping 40 major terrorist attacks in just four and a half years. These are no times for On-The-Job-Training for a person born with a proverbial silver spoon in his mouth.

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Let’s stop this poverty tourism by Sudheendra Kulkarni

Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Discovery of India’ is following such bizarrely unconventional ways that it is impossible not to subject it to public scrutiny. Last week he thought he needed a phirang co-discoverer and hence took British Foreign Secretary David Miliband to spend a night on a charpoy in the cowshed of a poor dalit widow in a village near Amethi, his parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh. As gaffes go, this must rank alongside his previous shockers in his rather brief political career—namely his “I could have been PM at 25” interview to Tehelka in 2005 and his 2007 assertion that the “Babri Masjid demolition would not have taken place had the Gandhi family been there in politics (at that time)”.

Miliband, 43, slept in Karma Devi’s house, whereas Rahul had a sleepover in the thatched hut of Shiv Kumari, another dalit woman in the neighbourhood.

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There was of course the mandatory visit to a milk collection centre, a school, a hospital and a women’s self-help group—all bearing the name of the Gandhi family. But make no mistake, it was India’s poverty on display for the benefit of Britain’s PM-in-waiting, courtesy the Congress party’s PM-in-waiting.

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As Shivkumari herself later told The Indian Express, “She had nothing to share with her VIP visitors except poverty. She also said she had got an NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) job card a year ago, but no work.” The cowshed in Karma Devi’s house, as the widely published photograph of Miliband entering it shows, had no electricity. The mattresses, quilts and linen on the charpoy he slept on were arranged by the local Congress party office. Lampooning this ersatz experience of a slice of the “Other India”, a blogger in London’s Telegraph newspaper wrote: “As political stunt-making goes, this must really take the gold chapati award for international humbug.”

If Rahul wants to experience rural India, let him do so by all means. After all, he was born with the proverbial silver spoon. In any case, it is now his democratic duty as a people’s representative. Any honest and earnest effort by any politician to connect to the people must be applauded. But what can one say about his political maturity, as displayed by his decision to invite a foreign dignitary to undertake poverty tourism in his constituency? Would a British MP take Pranab Mukherjee on a tour of the poorer quarters of London and show what developmental works he has initiated? Would an Italian MP invite Rahul to take a look at poverty in his country and make it an international media event? Have we ever seen Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao (or Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, who are tipped to become China’s next President and Prime Minister) escorting a foreign visitor on a tour of the backward areas of their country?

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But who is this boyish-looking foreign friend that Rahul hung out with? Miliband’s unsolicited advice on terrorism and Pakistan were so outrageous that not only India’s foreign office but even the Congress Party was left red-faced, leading to Arun Jaitley lambasting the British foreign secretary’s visit as the “greatest diplomatic disaster” in recent times.

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In a front-page report, The Hindu quoted senior officials as saying that the Indian side was “irritated” by the “aggressive manner in which Mr. Miliband conducted himself in his closed-door meetings with Mr. Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. In particular, South Block took offence to his strident arguments that the Mumbai terror attacks were really the result of the Kashmir issue remaining unresolved. He berated Dr. Singh and Mr. Mukherjee on this point... All told, say Indian officials, the two meetings with Mr. Miliband were ‘pretty awful’.”

Who has given Britain, one wonders, the right to advise us either on Kashmir or on development and poverty alleviation? After all, our erstwhile colonial master was one of the culprits who created the Kashmir problem in the first place. As our colonial history incontrovertibly shows, Britain was also responsible for the pillage and pauperisation of India—one of the important factors that pushed the families of Karma Devis and Shiv Kumaris into poverty. Of course, we cannot blame Britain for our own failures in poverty eradication in the post-Independence era. But who is responsible for these failures, if not those who have ruled India for the longest period since 1947?

If Miliband’s visit has any lesson for us, it is this: India needs leaders who are deeply rooted in India, who do not crave foreign recognition, whose empathy for the poor is not guided by PR guys nor triggered by the desire to create a media event, and who have the courage to show the Big Powers—and today’s Britain is no longer one although it pretends to be—the door if they exhibit the arrogance to advise us on how we should defend our national interests. And no more government-assisted poverty tourism, please!

Write to: sudheenkulkarni@gmail.com

Corrupt T R Baalu is delaying highway projects

This shameless Congress led UPA Government will never leave its path of corruption. Like costing Bharat (misnomer: India) its World Bank loan for NHAI was not enough, now even the courts are tired of this decadent corrupt Government and its unethical meddling in to autonomous bodies.

Ministry delaying highways: HC

The Delhi High Court seems to have hit upon the root cause of why crucial highway projects across the country have been moving at a
snail's pace in the past few years. And the discovery has left the court both shocked and angry.

The HC found that the ministry of surface transport and highways was indulging in "day to day interference" into the affairs of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), a statutory body granted functional autonomy by Parliament.

The court was so aghast by the fact that NHAI has seen five chairmen in the past two-and-a-half years that it recommended that a law be enacted to ensure that heads of public enterprises have fixed tenures of 3 to 5 years.

A division bench comprising Justices Mukul Mudgal and Manmohan said the Law Commission and Centre should seriously consider bringing in such a law which "in our opinion will ensure transparency, efficiency and accountability".

The HC's stinging indictment comes close on the heels of widespread criticism of Union surface transport minister T R Baalu's reported role in the recent change of guard in the NHAI, which saw N Gokulram being transferred out. There have also been allegations of repeated interference by the ministry resulting in stalling of key highway projects across India.

"The actions of the Union of India...indicates that not only autonomy granted to NHAI by Parliament through a statute enacted in this regard has been curtailed and eroded, but NHAI is sought to be reduced to a mere department of the ministry of road transport and highways," an anguished HC noted.

The court discovered through evidence tabled before it how the ministry kept forwarding bidders to NHAI, asking the latter to re-evaluate their applications even though NHAI had finalized its bidding process for the Hyderabad project.
So glaring was the government meddling as exposed by circulars sent by the ministry which were placed before HC that one of the judges, Justice Manmohan, decided to record a separate opinion. He deplored the ministry's habit of tinkering with NHAI's bidders list for projects and saw this as a "usurpation of NHAI's jurisdiction".

When it was brought to HC's notice by one of the petitioners, Madhucon Projects, how the NHAI chairmen had been repeatedly replaced, the judges said, "Frequent changes of the chairman of a public authority militates against the concept of an independent authority and makes any chairman vulnerable to pulls and pressures, besides creating administrative chaos and preventing implementation of any long term strategy."

Such was the extent of ministry's meddling that NHAI had admitted in an affidavit that "revaluation of the bids had been done only in accordance with the directions of the ministry."

Shri Ram Sethu, sacred ecology of the Sethusamudram

Source: Rama Sethu, sacred ecology of the Sethusamudram
By: Dr. S Kalyanaraman
letters@newstodaynet.com

In a heartening development catalysed by the Rameshwaram Rama Sethu Protection Movement, a group of scientists gathered in London in November 2008 to declare the imperative of saving and protecting Sethusamudram as the world’s sacred ecological treasure.

Location map of Rama SethuLocation map of Rama Sethu: bathymetry map of Sethusamudram (reproduced from Murty et al., 1994)

http://www.Setusamudram.in/htmdocs

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Sethusamudram

The Gulf of Mannar and Palk Straits of the Indian Ocean separated by the causeway Rama Setu called Setusamudram. Setusamudram is a compound term: Sethu + Samudram (Causeway + Ocean). Unlike the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, the Sethu has for millennia served as a causeway linking India and Sri Lanka. This sacred monument is venerated in the cultures of millions of people of many nations along the Indian Ocean Rim – nations that can be called the Indian Ocean Community, analogous to the recently constituted European Community. The Sethusamudram is so sacred that every year hundreds of thousands pilgrims assemble in the oceanfront near Rameshwaram (a jyotirlinga pilgrimage place) to perform samudrasnanam (sacred bath in the ocean) at a place where the Indian Ocean remains placid like a lake. This samudrasnanam is a celebration of and homage to the ancestors of many civilizations, Hindu civilization, in particular. This homage is called pitr-tarpanam reinforcing the identity of a billion people on the globe who revere the story of Rama and the history of Sethubandha (the bund to cross the ocean built by the architect Nala, under the direction of the Avatarapurusha, Sri Rama and by vanara army led by Sri Hanuman. Both Sri Rama and Sri Hanuman are worshipped in many temples across the globe. [vanara is erroneously translated as ‘monkeys’; va-nara literally means people-like speakers, evoking the evolution of man on earth.] The causeway is a physical structure superimposed over a ridge formed by collapsed canyons in geological past in an ocean zone exemplified by Mannar volcanic rocks, heat-flows of geothermal energy potential and plate tectonics (earthquakes caused by plate-movements).

HeatflowS in Rama Sethu 100 to 180 milliwatt per sq. m. comparable to Himalayan hotsprings. Will dredging in the area activate these heat zones?

Corals of Sethusamudram

Sethusamudram is home to corals. The coral conglomerates [* File contains invalid data | In-line.JPG *], which are referred to as floating stones in many versions of the story of Sri Rama, were used to construct the causeway, Sethu (which is explained in Tamil encyclopaedia Abhidana Chintamani as ‘ceyarkarai’ that is, artificial, man-made bund). Sethubandha is celebrated in ancient texts, in the song, dance and sculptural traditions of the Indian Ocean Rim states.

Sethubandha construction shown on a 9th century sculptural panel in Parambanan (Brahmavana) temple in Indonesia.

The devastation warned, affecting over 60 million people should make every public official and scientist pause and consider the sacred ecology that Sethusamudram constitutes. Over the millennia, people have venerated the Indian Ocean as a life-source. Many young, married couples go for the samudrasnanam praying for the birth of children in their families. Millions of marine folk along the long 7,500 km coastline of India live off the marine wealth of the coastline including the wealth of corals. Corals have a particular sacred significance in Hindu civilizational traditions. The shankha or turbinella pyrum is also called the sacred conch. This sacred conch, shankha, adorns the hands of Vishnu and Bhairava, two divinities worshipped in thousands of temples all over the world. The shankha is also venerated as the conch-trumpet called Panchajanya used by Avatara purusha Sri Krishna to call the troops to battle in the Kurukshetra war described in the epic Mahabharata. Sri Rama is also shown blowing the shankha trumpet in an exquisite terracotta sculpture of the 3rd century in a village near Ayodhya.

Terracotta panel of Bhitargaon showing Vishnu blowing the conch, an event depicting Rama as Vishnu Avatara, defeats the Rakshasas led by Malyavan, Mali and Sumali and as narrated in the Uttarkanda of the Ramayana (Cantoes VI-VIII). http://ignca.nic.in/pb0020.htm

Quake-induced uplift of coral families in Sumatra Mentawai islands.Sethusamudram is an Indian Ocean region famous for the coral turbinella pyrum, shankha. At Kizhakkarai, 15 kms from Rameshwaram, West Bengal Development Corporation has an office for acquiring the shankha; the annual turnover is over Rs. 50 million ($1 million). The shankha is used to make bangles. Without shankha bangles, no Bengali or Oriya marriage is complete. So sacred are the shankha bangles.Studies of the type carried out in Mentawai Islands near Sumatra have to be carried out in Sethusamudram to record the upliftment, if any, of the coral reefs, in the region which is earth-quake prone, apart from being the only coastal region with evidence of Mannar volcanic rocks and heat-flows comparable to the heat-flows recorded in the sub-Himalayan hot-springs.

Sethu as tsunami-protection wall

The Sethu has served as a natural tsunami-protection wall in an ocean zone subject to many earthquakes and consequent tsunamis. The nearby region of Sumatra is also home to the world’s most devastating volcano, the Mount Toba that had a super-eruption about 74,000 years ago spewing volcanic ash to a depth of 6 to 12 inches all over South India south of the Vindhya Mountains.

The Bay of Bengal part of the Indian Ocean is a trough subject to recurring, severe cyclonic storms from the area of depression near Taiwan. The storm surges get sucked into the trough of Bangladesh causing enormous damage to lives and properties. The tsunami which occurred on December 26, 2004 was an event triggered by the subduction of the Indian plate under the Burmese plate resulting in the displacement of water which surreptitiously traveled as tsunami resulting in the loss of over 200,000 lives and the virtual disappearance of Aceh island. A tsunami expert, Prof. Tad S. Murthy notes that if any channel is laid across Sethusamudram, the channel will act like a funnel absorbing the energies of the next tsunami and devastate the coastline of South India because of what is known as the ‘quarter-wave resonance amplification’. This is proved by the Alaska tsunami of 1964 which resulted in maximum devastation along the Alberni Canal in Canada and the destruction of the Alberni Port.

The sentiments expressed in the London seminar echoe the judgment of the Supreme Court of India which asked the Union of India to reconsider the Sethusamudram Channel project and noted that a Pachauri Committee will go study the issue. Prof. Rajendra Pachauri heads the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an institution that received the Nobel Prize for Peace. Pachauri Committee should not only recommend the scrapping of the Sethusamudram Channel project, which will be a world calamity if carried through, but also recommend a serious, multi-disciplinary agency to study the impact of another tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Another tsunami in the Indian Ocean is not a theoretical model but a reality. Scientific advances have not been able to predict the exact date of the next tsunami but all scientists are agreed that another tsunami more devastating than the December 26, 2004 tsunami is a possibility.

This nightmare warning, this possibility has been studied by seismologists (researchers of earthquakes) and earth scientists studying corals. In a recent study published in the Science Magazine (December 16, 2008) scientists have observed that many coral colonies in the Mentawai Islands near Sumatra were killed in September 2007 when large earthquakes lifted the reefs 1 meter or more out of the water. Seismology studies show that an earthquake of magnitude greater than 8.8 on Richter scale, could rock the coastal areas of Bengkulu and Padang in the next 30 years (along the Sumatra earthquake belt), triggering a major tsunami which could put over 60 million people of the Indian Ocean, east coast of India, west coast of Burma and south coast of Bangladesh at risk.

Pachauri Committee will also be well advised to review the creation of Marine Economic Zones all along the long 7500 km. coastline of India to create new economic opportunities for the coastal and marine people.

Tsunami-protection wall in Japan

A multi-disciplinary team of experts should be constituted IMMEDIATELY, by the Union of India to study the warnings of another tsunami which will devastate the nation’s coastline and lives and property of coastal people and establish Disaster Management Zones all along the vulnerable coastline with structures like tsunami-protection walls constructed in Japan.

Next tsunami

Sacred traditions help us remember the sacredness of the earth in which we are only trustees of the present and future generations.

We do NOT have the right to destroy this sacred ecology and deny future generations, the privilege of worshipping sacred sites and remembering the ancestors who have given the humanity its very identity.

Indian Ocean Rim states impacted by the tsunami of December 26, 2004

http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/propagation-database.html

The next tsunami is likely to impact the same Indian Ocean region – a lesson learnt from history.List and locations of catastrophic tsunamis of Indian Ocean.catastrophic tsunamis of Indian Ocean

What the scientists tell us about earthquakes and tsunamis should make us pause and ponder.The 9.0 Earthquake of December 26, 2004 at 6.58 hours at the epicenter (and in Sri Lanka) led to a sequence of 15 quakes across the Andaman region. While earthquakes could not be predicted in advance, once the earthquake was detected it was possible to give about 3 hours of notice of a potential Tsunami. Such a system of warnings is in place across the Pacific Ocean but is only being put in place in the Indian Ocean; this needs further cooperation among the nations of the Indian Ocean Community.

Nature magazine reports: “Tens of millions of people along the heavily populated coasts of Myanmar, Bangladesh and West Bengal could be living under threat of a tsunami as massive as the one that devastated the Sumatran coast in 2004, according to a report to be released by Nature on Thursday this week. The report claims that while the 2004 disaster took the scientific community by surprise many of the same warning signs currently exist in the Bay of Bengal.”

When the plate boundaries abruptly deform and vertically displace the overlying water, a tsunami occurs. A tsunami travels very fast as ocean waves, about 800 km/h, or 0.2 km/sec for a water depth of 5000 m. Seismic waves are faster and cause enormous upheavals on the earth’s crust and ocean-beds. Oceans are the treasure of humanity and it is our responsibility to harness the treasure in a sustainable manner through well-regulated Marine Economic Zones which have the potential to make the Indian Ocean Community a veritable powerhouse to create wealth of nations, while providing new livelihoos opportunities to over 2 billion people on the globe.

Tsunami impact on land cover of Indian Ocean Community

http://www.unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/freeproducts

/Tsunami/JRC/Asia_Tsunami_07January_landcover.pdf

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/

fullMaps_Sa.nsf/luFullMap1724ADB850F3F30B85256F8E0055AB65/$FileEUJRC_tsu_cov_sasia070105.pdf?OpenElement Land cover

/ potential land affected by tsunami (26 December, 2004)

Details of scientific papers on “Sacred ecology, sacred ocean, sacred Setusamudram” are provided at http://sites.google.com

/site/kalyan97/setu

(The author is the National President,

Rameshwaram Rama Sethu Protection Movement

and he can be contacted at kalyan97@gmail.com)

http://newstodaynet.com/col.php?section=20&catid=29

For Anti-Hindu Congress, Justice means Vengeance

War on Terror - Justice not Vengeance

Ain't this ridiculous how fast this Anti-Hindu govt. acted in taking down the website of Abhinav Bharat (read its articles of faith and constitution) without even studying its content, now that's true freedom of speech huh?! But it still hasn't taken down the one for SIMI or block other terrorist websites from being accessed and corrupting the minds of currently innocent misguided youths to turn them into Islamist Jihadi radicals and Evangelic Maoists by brainwashing and indoctrinating them. This govt. is inherently prejudice. Of course they are, as they claim, धर्म निरपेक्ष (Dharm-Nirpeksh) i.e. Anti-Righteousness and not पंथ निरपेक्ष (Panth-Nirpeksh) i.e. No favoritism/appeasement to any religion or sect.

It now all boils down to citizens of Bharat to exercise their right to vote correctly and judiciously in a massive turnout. One more chance given to this Machiavellian party under despot Antonia Maino would be disastrous for the nation and Hindus. Look at the mischievous tactics it is using in the court to break Shri Ram Setu and erase every bit of history related to Hindus with the support of its partner in crime bigot Karunanidhi spewing venom day after day. Bharat needs more visionary leaders like Mr. Narendra Modi.

Anti-Hindu Karunanidhi spews venom again

Karunanidhi criticises Hindu practice of sporting 'tilaks'

Karuna does it again, flays Hindus for sporting tilaks

Oh these fake secular fundamentalist are out to abuse Hindus again. His venomous demand means nothing because he will never ask muslims to not wear skull caps and spread noise pollution by shouting on those loud speakers. Or christians from putting those huge jesus statues in public spaces, one being erected right outside chennai station. Why? I thought they didn't believe in idol worship. Secularism meant Religion and State are separate, favor to no religion, and appeasement to none, but now it means bash the Hindus and make all religions equal. If all religions were equal then what is the reason to have so many religions. Let us just have one Sanatan Dharm. But this bigot will not understand this. Save Shri Ram Setu, Save world heritage.

Severe Terrorist threat to Hindu temples

There is a severe terrorist threat specifically from Lashkar-e-Taiba to Hindu Mandirs (Temples) all over Bharat. The recent one is in Tamil Nadu to very prestigious world heritage Meenakshi Mandir in Madurai and other Mandir in the state. With Karunanidhi who is a Hindu hater for being adamant on destroying Shri Ram Setu, abusing the Hindu God Shri Ram ji with derogatory, hateful and cheap language, and ardent follower of Aryan invasion myth as Chief Minister of the state. We are all worried if he will even take this threat seriously and secure the holy temples from terrorists. Government both state and center should do everything and invest money to safeguard all the Hindu temples from these damn terrorists.

High alert in Tamil Nadu after terror threat to temples

Tamil Nadu on high alert after terror threat from LeT

श्री राम सेतु / Shri Ram Setu Case

॥जय श्री राम॥

Watch an exemplary talk on Shri Ram Sethu evidence by Dr. Subramanian Swamy who is spearheading the Shri Ram Sethu case in Bharatiya (misnomer: Indian) Supreme Court.



The same exemplary talk is also available on Youtube.

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A talk with facts and sketches on Shri Ram Setu by Dr. Subramanaiam Swamy chaired by Mr. Rajiv Malhotra at Arsha Bodha Center in New Jersey.

1. The Ram Sethu is our heritage: WE SHALL PROTECT IT by Dr. Subramanian Swamy


2. 'Rama Sethu bridge is man-made only': Swami Dayananda Saraswati comes up with proof by Swami Dayananda Saraswati on April 29, 2007

Refuting the claim of a scientist that there is no-man made structure called Rama Sethu or Adam's bridge between Mandapam at Rameswaram and Thalaimannar in Sri Lanka, Swami Dayananda Saraswati (who is a scholar in such matters) has cited the study of a geologist to reaffirm his position that a bridge had indeed been built by humanity at the present site.

Stating there cannot be a natural, geological formation at the Rama Sethu connecting Indian sub-continent with Lanka, the spiritual leader quoting from the observations of the geologist says the climate and soil conditions in the Bay of Bengal between the two land masses did not allow for an undersea volcanic ridge (a long raised strip) as there was no seismic activity in this area. 'Nor can it be a submarine linear platform or plateau from a linear block of rock mass that rises up between two parallel faults or crustal fractures because such structures are not found in this area,' he reasoned.

Extending the thesis further, the Swamiji said the present formation could not be a coral ridge as coral islands were scattered in the coastal and offshore areas and not in the present site which was running at right angles to the coastline. Also, the undersea land strip could not be a submerged hill or an anticlinal (sloping downward away from a common crest) ridge as the bridge was found in sediments which were not subjected to any folding activity, he explained.

'Thus with no evidence to the contrary, the under-sea bridge could not be a geological formation and remained a man-made structure only,' he said citing the geologist's study.

Referring to the gazette published in 1803 by the British government for the Madras Presidency, Swami Dayananda Saraswati said in the glossary, the first entry was 'Adam's Bridge' which, it noted, was also called Rama's Bridge or Neela's Bridge. The gazette also mentioned the bridge's position in terms of latitude and longitude with its dimension of 30 miles length and 1.25 miles wide. 'The gazette further reports the bridge was used by people to cross between Tamilnadu and Sri Lanka until the middle of 15th Century when there was a breach due to a storm, causing a part of the bridge to be submerged,' he recalled. The copy of the map of the bridge along with its submerged portion in that period was available in the Saraswati Mahal Library in Thanjavur.

'With all these facts, we can safely assume that Rama Sethu is much more than a Hindu sentimental issue. It is an issue of national and human heritage,' the Swamiji said. If UNESCO came to know of this ancient land-strip, it would safeguard Rama Sethu as a 'phenomenal accomplishment of human genius,' he said.



3. More to destructive dredging than what meets the eye? by Cho Ramaswamy


4. Kamraj vs Gandhi Dynasty by Premendra Agrawal


5. Demand for 'Sacred Site' status for Shri Ram Sethu
   
   
   • Demand for 'Sacred Site' status for Sethu
   
   
   • Sacred Site nomination boosts campaign to save Gulf of Mannar
   
   


6. Anti-Hindu Congress is bent on destroying the sacred Shri Ram Setu


7. Shri Ram Sethu is not part of Hinduism says the communal Congress Government of India
   • Ram Sethu not a place of worship: Centre
   
   
   • Ram Setu not part of Hinduism: Congress tells Supreme Court
   
   
What a sick most communal govt. ever! You are questioning how can this be an integral part of Sanatan Dharm (Hinduism)? Who the f**k do they think they are to tell Hindus what to do? These communal jerks don't realize that God Shri Ram is integral part of every Hindu's cell. This Christian run govt. think it can demean and bash Hindus any which way it wants in the name of its phony secularism using such cheap language to hurt us. May be it thinks that the only way to cross a sea is to split it as per Christian Mythology.

8. Ram Sethu: What the apex court said


9. DU to check 'offending references' to Ramayan by CNN-IBN on September 19, 2008

Wow even at University level, filth and derogatory text is taught as history to make a mockery of Hindus. There was mere reference to Bible in the Da Vinci Code, and the govt. banned it. Whatever happened to the Freedom Speech and Expression?! But here we have a University teaching such derogatory text as a part of History course. Doesn't the constitution say even if there is text deemed as offensive to a community religiously, it would be banned. Then why ask the culprit to check if it is doing a mistake?

10. राम नाम की लूट में बुद्धि गई कहीं छूट।


11. जय श्री राम! Jai Shri Ram!


12. Denying Ram is denying India by Tarun Vijay on September 14, 2007

After all, the affidavit was filed quite confidently by the State apparatus because the entire atmosphere of governance has a distinct 'offend the Hindus, get the Muslim votes' hue.

It is this all-pervading air of 'bruising Hindus to get a pat' that the name that appears first on our lips since birth and lasts till the funeral pyre is lit was challenged so coolly by a government which is not run by aliens.

It has tried to delete all that stood for our identity and cultural traits that define us, our nationhood and soul. It shows utter disregard for the majority sentiment and the threads that weave a fabric called India, while distributing gifts of reservations and loans and opportunities for anyone declaring himself to be a non-Hindu. One Diwali our Shankaracharya was arrested and then Muslims were given reservations in jobs and educational institutions. No one ever, not even once, showed any concern for the Kashmiri Hindu refugees; rather illegal alien Muslim infiltrators were facilitated by enacting the Illegal Migrants Detention Act and when the Supreme Court struck it down, again brought it back through the back door.

Mythology. The whole construct is a British anthropological revenge on us. We had a different tradition of recording events and writing history. The British and their cohorts taught that all that was mythology, a myth, and only the Western Christian world's methods are 'scientific'. Hence we adopted their standards, their calendar, their ways to greet the guests, their worldview became ours, and we discarded everything that we cherished, adopted their attire and weird uniforms (see our learned advocates sweating in black but still not complaining) to look modern and progressive.

Hence questioning Ram and Sita, humiliating ochre-robed sanyasins, converting ancient people and ridiculing their faith becomes part of cleansing the 'heathens and pagans' of their dark practices and emancipating them to the 'higher' levels of 'modernity'.

When Kalidas wrote Raghuvamsam, he described the entire dynasty beginning from Brahma. Lord Brahma created 10 prajapatis -- one of whom was Marichi. Kashyapa is the son of Marichi and Kala. Kashyapa is regarded as the father of humanity. Vivasvan or Surya is the son of Kashyapa and Aditi. Manu or Vaivaswatha Manu is the son of Vivasvan. He is regarded as the first ruler belonging to the Ikshvaku dynasty. Ikshvaku is the son of Manu and established his kingdom in Ayodhya. Kukshi is the son of Ikshavaku. Vikukshi is the son of Kukshi. Bana is the son of Vikukshi. Anaranya is the son of Bana. Prithu is the son of Anaranya. Trisanku is the son of Prithu. Dhundhumara is the son of Trisanku. Yuvanaswa is the son of Dhundhumara. Mandhata is the son of Yuvanaswa. Susandhi is the son of Mandhata. Daivasandhi and Presenjit are the sons of Susandhi. Bharatha is the son of Presenjit. Asita is the son of Bharatha. Sagara is the son of Asitha. Asamanja is the son of Sagara. Amsumantha (Ansuman) is the son of Asamanja. Dileepa is the son of Amsumantha. Bhagiratha is the son of Dileepa. Kakustha is the son of Bhagiratha. Raghu is the son of Kakushta.

The clan of Raghuvamsha started with Raghu. Pravardha is the son of Raghu. Sankhana is the son of Pravardha. Sudarsana is the son of Sankhana. Agnivarna is the son of Sudarsana. Seeghraga is the son of Agnivarna. Maru is the son of Seeghraga. Prasusruka is the son of Maru. Ambarisha is the son of Prasusruka. Nahusha is the son of Ambarisha. Yayathi is the son of Nahusha. Nabhaga is the son of Yayathi. Aja is the son of Nabhaga. Dasaratha is the son of Aja. Rama, Lakshmana, Bharatha and Shatrughana are the sons of Dasaratha. Lava and Kusha are the sons of Rama.

Oh my god, these Sanskrit names! Why couldn't they have Roman ones, to be pronounced better?

The entire East Asia reverberates with the tales of Rama and enactment of the Ramayana including the Muslim-majority Malaysia and Indonesia and countries ruled by the Communists. But a Hindu majority country's government, under a non-Hindu dispensation, destroys the great bridge associated with Rama's legacy and files an affidavit that smacks of an alien mindset.

This was a counter-affidavit filed by C Dorjee, director (monuments), Archaeological Survey of India, on behalf of the respondent Union of India through the ministry of culture in reply to Dr Subramanian Swamy's petition that seeks to put a halt on the Sethu destruction. The language of the affidavit and the way it addressed the Adam's Bridge issue smacked of an utter disregard for Hindus. They hate calling it Ram Sethu and feel quite comfortable with Adam's Bridge, a much later coinage. Same firang mindset!

The way the whole issue is being dealt with by the government of India right from the beginning stinks of dishonesty and an aversion to Hindu sensitivities.

13. Sanatana Dharma Foundation Honors Dr Subramanian Swamy and Dr S. Kalyanaraman for their Courageous Effort in Protecting the Historic Rama Sethu

Sanatana Dharma Foundation, Dallas, Texas organized its first Hindu Unity Day, at the DFW Hindu Temple, in Dallas on the 19th and 20th of July, 2008. Symbolizing Hindu Unity, Representatives of Dallas Chapters of several organizations like the Art of living Foundation, Ammachi Satsang, Hare Krishna ISCKON group, Gayatri Parivar, Brahmakumaris, Carribbean Mandir, Chinmaya Mission, Hanuman Temple, Sathya Sai groups, Datta Yoga Peetam and other prominent Hindu personalities from the local Dallas-Fort Worth community in Texas, were present at this unique event. Dr Subramanian Swamy's latest book "Rama Sethu Symbol of National Unity" was released and distributed at the Event, to key members of these organizations and other prominent members of the community.

Dr Subramanian Swamy, PhD, visiting professor of Economics, Harvard University and former Union Law Minister of India, and Dr S. Kalyanaraman, Director, Saraswati River Research Center, and President of Sri Rameshwaram Rama Sethu Raksha Manch, received awards in Dallas, Texas for their courageous effort in protecting the historic Rama Sethu, from being destroyed by the Government of India in the name of a development project.

Rama Sethu is the original Sanskrit name given to a bridge built by the legendary King Rama, who crossed over to Sri Lanka from India to fight the King of Lanka, Ravana, recover his wife Sita, and restore Dharma (Order) in the land of India. While it is difficult to establish the exact historical age of these events, the bridge is thought to be at least 5000 years old, if not much older, making it the oldest causeway built across an ocean channel. The Rama Sethu is referred to in numerous ancient Sanskrit texts and scriptures, as a man made structure, and in recent times, it has been vividly photographed by both NASA and Indian Satellites.

When India fell under Colonial rule, the British renamed this construction as "Adam's Bridge". The Government of India, in recent years, has been trying to establish a Shipping Channel between India and Sri Lanka, by breaking and destroying the continuity of this ancient structure. Hindus in India and around the world have been protesting and fighting this decision of the Government of India, and have demanded that the Rama Sethu be declared a monument of historic importance and a world heritage site. On May 8th, 2008, the Supreme Court of India directed the Government of India to go back to the drawing board to see if it can create an alternate shipping route, and at the same time, study the Rama Sethu as a monument of historic importance. It is yet to be seen if the Government of India will comply with the Court's direction, and thereby uphold due constitutional process, or continue on its path of destroying the Rama Sethu, dis-regarding the Supreme court's direction.

Sanatana Dharma Foundation, (www.sdfglobal.org) a Dallas based Non-Profit organization inspired by the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha, (www.acharyasabha.org) the apex body of Hindus in India, presented the "Hindu Dharma Rakshaka Kshatriya Award" to Dr Subramanian Swamy & Dr S. Kalyanaraman on the occassion of the Hindu Unity Day organized at the DFW Hindu Temple in Dallas, Texas on July 19, 2008. Speaking on the occasion, the President of Sanatana Dharma Foundation, Kalyan Viswanathan, said that "This award, a first of its kind, has been instituted to honor and celebrate the 'Kshatriya Spirit', specifically the courage shown by Hindus in taking risks and standing up to fight for the protection and preservation of Dharma. The word Kshatriya is a Sanskrit word that refers to the royal and noble class of Hindus who historically defended their nation, and the Dharma of the land."

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14. Dr. Kusum Vyas’ unstinted efforts and global quest secured the nomination for Shri Ram Setu (Gulf of Mannar) as an International Sacred Site.