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From: "Rohit Dasari" <dasari@...>
To: <phoNet@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 7:28 AM
Subject: [phoNet] Re: Sarasvati, set of 7 books: Kalyanaraman


>
> Ackkkhhh!!!
>
> "Vedic River Sarasvati from 8,500 ybp"
>
> Interlinking of Indian Rivers ("discovery and rebirth of River Sarasvati
> has provided the impetus for the establishment of a National Water Grid")
>
> Hindu State ("Raama raajya")
>
> Religious Fundamentalism.
>
> Taliban.
>
> Terrorism.
>
> War.
>
> Ackkkhhh!!!

It does sound scary. No Sarasvati? -- we will make one! It reminds one of
the insane irrigation projects that bled out the Amu Darya and eventually
caused the Aral Sea disaster, or Brezhniev's grandiose plans to divert the
rivers of Siberia.

Piotr