Koh-I-Noor

[Akhilesh Jha]

Namaskar,

If asking for Kohinoor is fine, why should
someone object to asking for the land, material
and property looted after Hindu temples were
destroyed by Muslim invaders in Bharat?

Jha

--- Bharat Gupt <abhinav at DEL3.VSNL.NET.IN> wrote:
> Shrinivas Tilak wrote:
>
> >     This week, eighteen Rajya Sabha members in
> India have done just
> > that--they have sponsored a motion asking Britain
> that the diamond be
> > returned to India.
>
> One of the strong campaigners for this has been
> Kuldeep Nayar.
> I suspect that KN has done this to ensure that
> really nothing gets done.
> Why else shall he lobby so strongly for a piece of
> carbon ?
>
> Lets face it, is Kohinoor a wonder of Indian art or
> culture ?
>
> Can it be equated with the Elgin marbles... pieces
> of miraculous art
> from one of the holiest temples of Hellas.
>
> I wonder why Nayar and his fellow  MPs did not
> consult the people of India
> before starting on this request as early as his
> tenure as the Indian HComm.
>
> Did he and other MP's debate about what are the
> cultural
> priorites of the cultured Indians in asking things
> back from Britain ?  Surely such restorations can
> be
> symbolic and very few,  undertaken only for the sake
> of international goodwill.
>
> To ask for Kohinoor, that can be claimed by a few
> other nations besides
> India, is a devious way promoting ill-will.
>
> Another example of bureacratic ignorance compounded
> by legislative hubris !!!
> best,
>
> Bharat Gupt,  Associate Professor, Delhi University
> PO Box 8518, Ashok Vihar, Delhi 110052  INDIA
> tel 91-11-724 1490, fax 741-5658, email:
> bharatgupt at vsnl.com
> homepage: http://personal.vsnl.com/bharatgupt


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