THE recent story of NASA discovering a %u201Cmysterious 1.75 million year ancient bridge%u201D is now clearly exposed as a deliberate fraud by Hindu fundamentalists. It was initially propagated by Vaishnava News Network an ISKON web site and was promptly hailed as a scientific proof of Ramayana by Hindutva internet sites. Not much notice would have been taken of such claims, which are after all periodic in the Hindutva sites, if PTI and television channels had not picked up the story. Finally, the fraud was exposed: NASA clarified that its pictures were neither mysterious nor new. These pictures, taken from space borne cameras of the 30 kms long sandbanks, have been around for more than six years and most certainly NASA did not certify them as man-made. NASA has debunked that it had identified the structure as man-made. It is difficult for a space agency from kilometres out in space taking photographs to identify a structure as man-made. As if this absurdity is not enough, the original news report also talked about NASA not only declaring the structure as man-made but also precisely dating this to be 1.75 million years of age. And to cap it all, NASA was even supposed to have declared human habitation in Sri Lanka to date approximately to this time. All of this from outer space! In the eyes of Hindu fundamentalists, NASA scientists must seem really super human: they can do from outer space what their own archaeologists such as B B Lal cannot do on the ground.
RE:Deliberate Fraud
by kiran on Apr 14, 2008 05:15 PM Permalink
Mr Prasad, With what authority do u state that the stucture was not man made? NASA says that these pictures were around for 6 years. Just FYI, Ramayan has been around for thousands of years. How can a person (Valmiki) living a thousand kilometres away know that there was a structure like this connecting Lanka and India?? Or do u want to say that it is a mere coincidence? If it is, there are a hell of a lot of coincidences. For instance, there is a mountain in Srilanka (a tourist attraction now) in which the vegitation is the same as in the Himalayas. Also, as stated, Ravan's descendants are still present on the island. If you take in all of these facts, you theory that all this is a coincidence looks quite ridiculous and foolish...
RE:Deliberate Fraud
by Ravan Raj on Apr 14, 2008 05:17 PM Permalink
Manokara! dont try to spoil thousands of peoples confidence just for the sake of one black lenced dravidian divider ruler to become rich.
RE:RE:Deliberate Fraud
by Bhasmasur on Apr 14, 2008 05:28 PM Permalink
Be a karuna family first(including his two legal wives and kids, illegely more than 60 wives and kids). Then usel Tamil whereevr necessary.but we dont mind to kill poor tamil engineers inside the news paper office if necessary. some times any of this family member wnats a central minister post be an inidan.
