The Ram Sethu
In 2001, the Government of India has approved a multi-million dollar Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project that aims to create a ship channel across the Palk Strait. The plan is to dredge the shallow ocean floor near the Dhanushkodi end of Rama's Bridge to create enough leeway allowing ships to pass through the channel instead of having to go around the island of Sri Lanka. It is expected to save nearly 30 hours' shipping time by cutting over 400 km off the voyage.
Is this the price to be paid for humans to make more money.
Is this the price to be paid for humans to gain more power.
Is this the price to be paid ? ? ?
One cannot stop gazing at the magnificent structure in sea
A structure older that the recordes history itself
The stretch of land that once connected India and Sri lanka
about 10000 years ago.
A beautiful bridge,
It almost seems like bridge reaching out to heavens in the sea
There so few thing left on this good earth
so few sights left which can inspire you
which can make you cry
so few sights which can leave you mesmerised
How can you destroy this ? ? ?
Do we have the right to Destroy this for our own Greed
What a fine soulution to all the problems we created
Destroy everything that stands in our way
But the war to save the bridge and war to destroy bridge has
brought out many different shades of people.
The Civil war :
Here A civil war has started between the DMK and VHP political parties
legacy of Ram
The name, Rama's Bridge or Rama Setu (Sanskrit; setu: bridge) for the shoal of islands derives from the Sanskrit epic Ramayana, in which a bridge from Rameswaram was built by allies of Rama that he used to reach Lanka, and rescue his abducted wife Sita from the asura king, Ravana.[2] The sea separating India and Sri Lanka is called Sethusamudram, based on the same episode.
Of fools and Of sages
DMK openly has stated it does not belive in Ram and
Bridge must be destroyed at all cost.
I would call this political suicide in a country deeply routed in religion
But the people ,the same people who preached to me about religion
the people who talked about greatness of god,
people who so dearly hang on to god for their need
these were people who consider themselves priests,Gods in human form
all the sages have no courage to stand up to this contradiction to their very beliefs
Not one of the south indian sages have raised any objection to this
Such men.who cannot stand up for what the preach,what the believe in.
Here i mention south india sages beacuse i have grown up in a south indian family
I have seen the their belief in god.
I have visited many saints and sages who have supposedtly devoted their entire life to god
All this make me say that before i didnot agree with their beliefs
but still these people held some stature in my mind
but this makes me call them hippocrates
VHP :
VHP is evil re incarnated according to me
Thoushands have died and echoes of their cries have
in communal disharmony in the country that will probably never die
but they were the only ones to stand up to this
due to blind faith,or political leverage or they truly believe in ram
atleast they are ready to fight for their belifs
They are ready to fight for what the preach
Though their methods have been wrong
atleast they are not hippocrates
As For me
I dont worship god
I dont believe in fools and not in Sages
But I would like to believe in legacy of Ram
Just a magnificent Story
and there exist some fact to make the story real why destroy it
I would like to believe that great men walked on this earth once.
May the child in me is still alive,fascinated by stories of eternal battle
stories of heroism,of love passion,loyalty and respect
This part of me will never let go of legacy of Ram
I may have quoted various reasons of saving the bridge
and People may have various reasons to destroy it
But who am i kidding
my real reason is just that the child in me cannot let go
I would like to see the ram sethu standing just to
keep my childhood stories alive.
