Koh-I-Noor

Vikrant Shah vikrants99 at YAHOO.COM
Tue Dec 12 03:30:51 UTC 2000


Yeah, Akhileshji, whatever our Bharat Mata has lost to
all the invaders shud be taken back..
can you please suggest few good ways of doing the same
including spreading the awareness.

Vikrant Shah


--- Akhilesh Jha <hindu108 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> 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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