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| | The gold rush | | | Dear Editor,
An unknown village, called Dondiya Kheda in Unnao district, hogged the limelight mid-October after self-styled Sadhu Shobhan Sarkar claimed there is hidden treasure in the premises of the fort. The State Government fell prey and the media, particularly electronic, goes to town about it. It so happened that with the ASI and Geological Survey of India teams descending in the village, the media sniffed ‘good news material’. However, they blew the entire event out of proportion. While someone staked a tall claim about gold being buried in a 19th century fort, the administration reacted and national agencies swung into action. Worse, the TV channels had a field day sensationalizing the gold hunt, with their headings and style of reporting as though it was “true story of the king’s treasure”.
But what makes matters worse is that the Union Minister of State for Agriculture Charanda Mahant wrote to other ministers! The Government machinery moved surprisingly fast and the project of excavation was sanctioned and commissioned in less than a month, this when the administration normally takes months to arrive at a decision. That was news. The ASI and GSI claimed they were not acting on Shobhan Sarkar's dream but were going by scientific evidences. But they could not and have not, so far, disclosed those evidences. Additionally, they couldn’t make it clear what they were looking for. Naturally, why they undertook the absurd exercise, remains a big question or rather a mystery.
The absurdity of the entire exercise only goes to show what a nation of fools we are!
—R.K. Kohli,
Channi Himmat
News Updated at : Tuesday, November 5, 2013 |
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