Tuesday, October 23, 2007

The joke called Ramar Sethu

If you are not aware of the controversy in India about the Ramar Bridge, (or Ramar bandan or adam bridge or sethu samudhra project as different parties want to call it), please go back to sleep and I will wake you after the rest of the winter is over.

There is enough serious debate with people's tongues and heads at stake. I just want to compile here some of the acute observations from our esteemed politicians.

Subramaniam Swami: If at all Karunanidhi is supporting someone, he should be supporting Rama and not Ravana. Because Ravana is Brahmin and Rama is Kshatriya!
Dude, If I understand Karunanidhi right, he is telling there is no Rama or Ravana, if a person does not exist, his caste does not matter.

Karunanidhi: People claim Rama build this bridge. I want to know which engineering school he went to.
Ramagopalan: Karunanidhi is going around telling people he built 18 over head bridges in Chennai. Which engineering school did he go to?

Tirumavalavan - (in a meeting reiterating Rama is fiction): Rama killed Ravana who is a Tamil king. We should destroy the bridge because it is a mark of shame for us Tamils.
Dude, Whose side are you on? You are supposed to be telling people Rama did not exist. How did a fictional character kill a Tamil king.

BJP is planning nationwide stir on Ramar Sethu
What is so funny about it? They approved parts of the project in 2001-2002!!!

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