Ramar Sethu

I love the inanities of life. Especially when it comes at the end of a miserable day.

So somebody in the government came up with the idea of Sethu Samudram Project. The DMK government wants it badly because it feels it will go down well with the voters. The BJP opposes it because this is the point where Rama crossed over to Sri Lanka to wage war with Ravana. And the Central Government is clueless. Any way the whole matter is with the court. The Centre has now submitted before the courts that Rama himself destroyed the Sethu he built across the sea.

Oh Wow! It is almost as if they had a private audience with Rama and he told him this. (The Centre says it is written in Kambar Ramayana which would imply Kambar had a private audience with Rama. Whatever!)

In all this mesh of idiotic arguments is lost the simple fact that we would have to pay a heavy environmental cost. It is also not by any means clear that this canal would shorten the distance between Sri Lanka and India. But if our political parties became sensible where would we go for laughter?