Shouldn't That Causeway Be A National Monument?

But I forget. We are secularists.

The much touted Sethusamudram project undertaken by Indian Navy, to reduce distance between eastern and western commands, is now being challenged by Hindu believers.

The causeway that Lord Raama build to get his beloved Sita back from the Lanka raakshasa Raavana using his Vanara Sena is to be destroyed by the project. Indian Navy wants to dredge the submerged land between Indian southern peninsula and Sri Lanka breaking up the causeway.

NASA's enlargeable satellite pictures of bridge (I couldn't find the best one I have seen) is here and here. NASA calls it Adam's bridge!

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Swami Omkarananda, of Chidbavananda Ashram in Theni, and D. Kuppuramu, the village panchayat president, filed a lawsuit to stop the destruction of the causeway because of religious significance. May be they have India's Tourism Department on their side? Add the causeway to the Mahabharat Circuit.

Expect the so-called secularists to propose more dumb theories on how the submerged causeway was formed (probably something to do with currently reinvented benevolent, but formerly murderous barbarian, Babar), - and propose that even if the bridge was built as Sage Vaalmiki described in Ramayana, it was so long ago, and that we should had over the land to secularists so that they can built a hospital for the poor (they are not too keen on Indian military expansion anyway) - yes, in the middle of the sea!

Also, enjoy the sneerings of the rationalists and atheists.