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We are not talking about 100 year old houses, pretty much every Hindu knows about Dwarka. So lack of funding and lack of interest are not good excuses.

by sumedh 8y ago

srean 8y ago
I think you missed my point -- we have so much historical artifacts strewn around that we don't value them as much or fund their upkeep as much.
- cryptozeus 8y ago
  Yup thats a good point. Forget about the submerged dwarka, there is so much old architecture all around in india and no one cares for it or take care of it. We just simply don’t care. Go look at the forts in rajasthan ans how they are treated vs forts jn all around Europe.
  - sumedh 8y ago
    > Forget about the submerged dwarka Why, submerged dwarka is more important to Hindus than all those forts.
    - cryptozeus 8y ago
      Because its believed to be of krishna the gold himself. Other forts are of kings
- sumedh 8y ago
  No I did not miss your point but on the other hand you missed mine, yes we have historical artifacts but Dwarka trumps all the other artifacts.
  - srean 8y ago
    That would be an opinion though. That said, there would be significant number of subscribers in Gujarat and among the Krishna school. I have the strongest suspicion that there would be a significant population of people who self identify as Hindu but would have at best tepid interest. There would be people who would be unhappy that their taxes are going in that direction. Day to day mundane matters and relative importance of other artifacts according to their judgement will trump it (Dwarka). From your comments in the thread it seems you are a shade touchy about Dwarka and were taking obvious metaphors literally, but I couldn't figure out how it (Dwarka) fit in what we were discussing in the thread -- lack of wide interest among Indians on historical artifacts. So I let it ('but, what about Dwarka') go as an instance of whataboutism. My personal belief/opinion is that it makes a lot of sense to explore that(Dwarka) than throw money at the stupid idea that the geological formation connecting main land India to Srilanka is a man made bridge built by Ram's army.

We are not talking about 100 year old houses, pretty much every Hindu knows about Dwarka. So lack of funding and lack of interest are not good excuses.

by sumedh 8y ago

We are not talking about 100 year old houses, pretty much every Hindu knows about Dwarka. So lack of funding and lack of interest are not good excuses.

srean 8y ago

I think you missed my point -- we have so much historical artifacts strewn around that we don't value them as much or fund their upkeep as much.

cryptozeus 8y ago
Yup thats a good point. Forget about the submerged dwarka, there is so much old architecture all around in india and no one cares for it or take care of it. We just simply don’t care. Go look at the forts in rajasthan ans how they are treated vs forts jn all around Europe.
- sumedh 8y ago
  > Forget about the submerged dwarka Why, submerged dwarka is more important to Hindus than all those forts.
  - cryptozeus 8y ago
    Because its believed to be of krishna the gold himself. Other forts are of kings
sumedh 8y ago
No I did not miss your point but on the other hand you missed mine, yes we have historical artifacts but Dwarka trumps all the other artifacts.
- srean 8y ago
  That would be an opinion though. That said, there would be significant number of subscribers in Gujarat and among the Krishna school. I have the strongest suspicion that there would be a significant population of people who self identify as Hindu but would have at best tepid interest. There would be people who would be unhappy that their taxes are going in that direction. Day to day mundane matters and relative importance of other artifacts according to their judgement will trump it (Dwarka). From your comments in the thread it seems you are a shade touchy about Dwarka and were taking obvious metaphors literally, but I couldn't figure out how it (Dwarka) fit in what we were discussing in the thread -- lack of wide interest among Indians on historical artifacts. So I let it ('but, what about Dwarka') go as an instance of whataboutism. My personal belief/opinion is that it makes a lot of sense to explore that(Dwarka) than throw money at the stupid idea that the geological formation connecting main land India to Srilanka is a man made bridge built by Ram's army.