After having studied the impact of the Sethusamudram project, the environmental damage it is likely to cause and the financial unviability, I feel the project should have been thrown away. One should while considering the impact of this project, not forget that we are unnecessarily displeasing a friendly neighbour(Sri lanka) but are making ourselves vulnerable to terrorist attacks on the vessels by LTTE(which controls most of Jaffna which is close to the channel under construction).Though we are not at loggerheads with each other now, we never know. If we displease them in any manner, mindless brutals that they are, they can blow over the tankers or ships passing through the channel causing immense ecological disasters.Then the marine life, the coral reefs , the ecological imbalances caused due to ocean currents and what not. To top it all, the government in the process of digging this channel want to destroy Ram sethu or Adam%u2019s bridge, which is mythologically thought to have been built by Lord Rama.There are reports that destruction of the Ram sethu might even cause damage to the famous Rameshwaram temple located on the Rameshwaram island. And when VHP and other hindu outfits express their concern and stage protests, the mindless government files an affidavit in the supreme court saying that Lord Ram and Ramayana are all fictitious .Is this not amounting to blasphemy and amounting to playing with the religious sentiments of hindus.May be this is not our government. It is pro
RE:Sethusamudram project
by Aravind Chandarlapati on Sep 13, 2007 07:49 PM Permalink
hello selva kumar, what made you believe I am north indian.Moreover,BJP did not start this.Get your facts right.They only allocated money for a feasibility study under the insistence of your great chief minister karunanidhi.Any way I am not talking on behalf of BJP.I dont share the same fanaticism as some of the north indians.But why should any government hurt the religious sentiments particularly of the majority community.Also you said LTTE are fighting for Tamils in Jaffna.But everyone knows their culture.How blood thirsty they are and how much they care for life.You seem to be a hard core tamilian , like that vaiko who supported LTTE.Though they dont have a direct war with India, inspite of killing the Indian Prime minister(may be because of the IPKF action),they are the most bloodiest organisations in the world.Suicide bombers, killing innocent civilians, and what not.You may be a tamilian. So be proud of the great saints or the intellectuals like Radhakrishnan,Abdul Kalam, T.N.Seshan, and many others.But are you not ashamed of supporting the LTTE.
RE:Sethusamudram project
by Selvam kumar on Sep 13, 2007 02:24 PM Permalink
Why object LTTE when you can't prevent Bangladeshis coming and getting Indian government jobs and plant bombs whenever they want.LTTE are fighting for the Tamils in Jaffna and not in India.There are coastguard to take care.
RE:Sethusamudram project
by Selvam kumar on Sep 13, 2007 02:19 PM Permalink
If Suez or Panama canal is unviable ,then Sethu also.Don't blame congress or Sonia ,for the blunders of BJP or VHP.You BJP only started this and nuclear project.Now as you need some election gain you are instigating VHP .WHy did you sideline Gurumoorthy like economic genius during your rule?Because he is a south Indian.You North Indian never tolerate a South Indian and remain arrogant to south Indian or foreigners...Open your mind and see the both side views .
