krishnadasa 0 Report post Posted October 29, 2007 Mr Karunanidhi blabbers as http://www.indianexpress.com/story/233491.html Just wondering if he is gone mental ? does anyone know where to find the online copy of Tulsi ramayan? Thanks, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Murali_Mohan_das 0 Report post Posted October 29, 2007 Way far out! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
suchandra 1 Report post Posted October 29, 2007 ‘In the Tulsidas Ramayan, Sita is not Ram’s wife but his sister. Only in the Valmiki Ramayan is she his wife’. Seems this kind of disagreement simply causes unneccessary disturbance and doesn't help to deepen the spiritual understanding of a mercenary nation like India. Posted online: Monday, October 29, 2007 at 0000 hrs http://www.indianexpress.com/story/233491.html Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s recent statements on Lord Ram and the Sethusamudram project created a controversy. In this second part of an interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, he says there is no scope left for political negotiation on a new alignment for the Sethusamudram project. He also talks about how bitter politics in Tamil Nadu has become and why he thinks highly of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister V.P. Singh Do you think that, over the last 10-15 years, coalition politics has been the antidote to the poison of separatism? Coalition is a temporary arrangement. It is not a permanent solution. We cannot say it is an antidote. But because of coalitions, we have been able to get some of our demands fulfilled. To that extent coalitions have been useful. Sethusamudram, the Salem steel plant, Neyveli Lignite Corporation — these are issues we raised in the past. But nobody bothered. They have begun to show concern now. We had asked for projects like the Bhakra Nangal dam here in the south. We wanted poverty to be eradicated here. Now we are able to get poverty-eradication schemes implemented here. Our aspirations are being fulfilled. Even the demand for classical language status for Tamil — which we never thought it would be given — has been conceded. When we are getting what we want, where is the need for separatism? • So the cure is a federal government, which will require a new Constitution. You mentioned the Sethusamudram project. Were you surprised how big an issue it became? Not merely surprised! Those who wanted it are the ones who are now opposing it. Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the BJP sanctioned the project when he was prime minister. Now the BJP is against the project. • The BJP set the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal rolling too. Now it is opposing the deal. Yes. • So politics is like that. But this whole . . . There should be no politics on certain issues. If someone politicises projects taken up in the national interest, he is a politician and not a statesman. • But this is not just politics; this is also religion. No, no. Where is religion in this? • Well, because there’s a belief that Ram Sethu was the bridge built by Lord Ram. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
