“You leave us alone, don’t divide our people”

sept 29th, 2007

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"You leave us alone, don't divide our people"
An open letter to Sonia Gandhi
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By Anwar Manippady

COURTESY: Organiser Weekly

It is not possible for you to know the pulse of
Indians as we belong to a great heritage and culture.
You are taking advantage of our people's innocence and
goodness. You have been trying to shatter our
country's peace and destroy the great heritage passed
down to us from generations. It's time you restrain
yourself from committing such crimes against Indians.

Madam Soniaji!

You are worsening the plight of minorities of this
country – India, to which you do not belong. It is not
possible for you to know the pulse of Indians as we
belong to a great heritage and culture. You are taking
advantage of our people's innocence and goodness. You
have been trying to shatter our country's peace and
destroy the great heritage passed down to us from
generations. It's time you restrain yourself from
committing such crimes against Indians.You have been
leading a National Party not because of the merits you
have, but because the members of your party are
gullible, ignorant and are not able to unite together!
The vote bank policy practiced by you and your
Congress party is further deteriorating the
relationship between the majorities and minorities of
this country. Here are some instances.Sometime ago,
while Sania Mirza was donning the Indian colours and
bringing laurels to the country, your support to a
group of clergy in their fatwa against Sania was
uncalled for. You said that it was a personal matter,
and their sentiments should not be hurt and it should
be respected. There is no such fatwa in this country
and instead of quelling this then and there; your
support set a very bad precedent.

The appeasement through the reservation policy based
on caste, creed and religion is further breaking the
society by division and groupism. The same reservation
policy could be implemented on the basis of the
economic backwardness whereby the branding of the
people on these lines can be avoided. Of course you
couldn't have created a vote bank there!

Recently when some fanatic hooligans attacked novelist
Tasleema Nasreen, you and your Party did not utter a
word to condemn the incident. Your protégé Y.Samuel
Rajashekar Reddy did not get the hooligans booked
under proper criminal charges. They had the courage to
threaten the author of beheading her and the Andhra
Pradesh Government watched this in silence instead of
punishing the culprits.

Your head of the Government came out with the
statement before the investigation ended with regard
to the fanatic terrorists involved in the UK bomb
blast, saying that 'One felt sorry for the relatives
of such terrorists'. Why do you do this? Is it not
trying to please the ignorant minorities for sake of
vote bank? Madam, Please stop these appeasements. It
is not going to help the minorities. Its detrimental
to the minorities, detrimental to the country.

These appeasements develop a false strength with the
minorities, which in turn will tend to undo the
goodness their religion preaches. All these above
actions will not build our country India into a
modern, developed and a powerful nation.

It also reminds me of the novel Lajja by Smt. Tasleema
Nazreen, wherein a Hindu family dedicated to the
country Bangladesh was subjected to discrimination,
brutality and even rape. And finally that family had
to run away from their motherland – Bangladesh. Your
appeasement will make the minorities of this country,
homeless too, for no fault of theirs or the
majorities.

Like the old saying 'From the frying pan to the fire';
your new venture, destroying the Ram Sethu will be
another worst crime against the country. The whole
world knows that Ram Sethu has a religious connotation
and we Indians are emotionally attached to it. The
dredging and opening of Ram Sethu will have far
reaching consequences in India. Moreover;

1) It is not beneficial in any way:
a) Any ship weighing 40,000 tons and above cannot sail
through this pass as most of the ships carry much more
weight at present.
b) It is exorbitantly costly to make this pass.
c) The time gained by passing through this pass
instead of going around Srilanka is two hours.
d) The ships passing through this channel requires
pilotage and pilotage charges which will be heavy. For
example the channel length of this pass is about 56 Km
and the pilotage charges will be around Rs one lakh
per Km.
e) Dredging the pass and removing the sand will be a
permanent feature and it's not going to be cost
effective. On the whole, it will not be economically
viable for the shipping companies or beneficial for
the country.

2) How detrimental it is:
a) It will hurt sentiments of millions of Indians.
b) Priceless Thorium deposits will be washed away by
breaking the wall.
c) More than ten lakh fishermen will lose their jobs.
d) If the pass becomes an International route, it is a
threat to our internal security.
e) It will destroy the fragile coral islands, as the
sediment from the turbulent tides will enter from the
Bay of Bengal.
f) It might reactivate the sub sea heat flows.
g) Ram Sethu is a natural tsunami protection wall. It
proved during last tsunami, as Kerala was not
affected. This fact has a scientific bearing.

Let us take a look at the opinions we have from
different quarters of the society and various
scientists and thinkers:
a) NASA and Google Earth photographs and other
information
b) Department of Earth Sciences, Government of India.
March 2007.
c) Sir.A.R. Mudaliar Report 1956.

All the above evidences show that Ram Sethu is not a
naturally-developed formation, but it's a man-made
bund. The meaning of the word "Sethu" in all the
Indian languages is "Man-made bund". Sir A.R. Mudaliar
Committee Report very clearly says that breaking of
Ram Sethu is not feasible as it would entail definite
navigational hazard and shifting sandbanks in this
area presents a far more formidable problem both at
the stage of construction and during maintenance
level.

Professor Tad S. Murthy , A Tsunami expert says Ram
Sethu is needed to change the mouth of the alignment
of the Bay of Bengal. This will help in avoiding
destruction of Kerala if there's a recurrence of
another tsunami.

Besides ISRO and NASA there are other evidences which
shows the existence of Ram Sethu. They are as follows:

Arya Chakravarti coins of Jaffna of 13th century and
Parantaka Chola a copper plate of 10th century
indicate that king Aparajithavarman went to
Setuthirtha. That is Rama's temple at the Sethu.

Evidence from Sangam literature: In a book titled
Ramanatha-puram, a district gazetteer published in
1972 refers to Ram Sethu also as Adam's Bridge or Nala
Setu.

Malabar Bowen Map of 1747 drawn by Netherlands shows
Ramar Coil (Rama Temple).

Maps drawn by Joseph Parks, an Australian Botanical
explorer (1788) shows Ramar Bridge. (map in Saraswathi
Mahal Lib., Thanjavur).

Islamic Expansion and western view of South Asia, 7th
to 12th century (Al- Biruni's record) by a legendry
Arab explorer and geographer proves the presence of
Ram Sethu.
Madras Presidency Admission Reports of 1903 and a
travelogue of 1744 call the bridge of Rama : It really
joined Ceylon to

India until 1480, until a breach was made through
rocks during a storm. A subsequent storm enlarged this
breach and thus the foot traffic ceased. A book by
Alexander Hamilton, 1744 New account of the East
Indies: gives an exact and copious description of the
situation, wherein page 338 describes his visit to
'Zeloan' (Alternative spelling for Ceylon) by walking
on the bridge. Authentic digital images of Sri Ram
Sethu from NASA image exchange: Photographs taken by
NASA astronauts, Russian cosmonauts, Gemini Spacecraft
in 1966, 8 NASA Space Shuttle Missions 1983 to 1994.
International Space Station expedition 2002-2005, all
conclude Ancient Bridge = Sri Ram Sethu and appreciate
the Sethu in following words: Sri Ram Sethu causeway
must have been a major engineering feat for its thin
trace is still so clearly visible on the present days
satellite images. It has resisted the relentless
erosion of the sea for millions of years and it
attests to the great engineering skills of the ancient
Indian people. It is the earliest and largest
carbon-fibre reinforced civil engineering structure
known to man and should be protected as a world
heritage site.

Justice K.T. Thomas and our former President Dr A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam observations say that the Sethu is a
heritage site and has a religious leaning. All the
above scientific derivations, historical evidences and
observations of scientists and learned persons and the
feeling of millions of people of all communities if
set aside and the Ram Sethu is destroyed, our country
will go through insurmountable spiritual and economic
loss. When Metro Rail tracks in Delhi can be replanned
because of the worry that it might cause vibration to
the natural heritage the Kutub Minar; the highways
gets diverted when monuments like dargahs, temples and
churches comes in the way, then why can't to have
absolute peace, and to avoid chaotic situations above
all in the interest of this great country the breaking
of Ram Sethu be dropped. On the other hand the
development of Ram Sethu as a heritage place, a
pilgrim center and as a tourist spot should be
envisaged which will not only bring huge revenue to
the exchequer but peace to people of India too.

(The writer is Chairman, Karnataka State Govt.
Minorities Development Corporation.)

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