[Reader-list] The LOC code

[Vivek Narayanan]

If it is at all possible to make sense of or interpret 
geopolitically the implications of this hallucination below,
I would really appreciate responses from you astute and 
various cultural studiers on the reader list.

-V.

Dan's brown haze: Kashmir part of America?
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2005 10:31:38
PM ]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1066268.cms

Does Kashmir - the bone of contention between India
and Pakistan for over 50 years - really belong to the
US? This is the startling revelation made by Dan
Brown, the internationally bestselling author of The
Da Vinci Code , in a shortly to be released
non-fictional work, The Secret of the K-word . 

Using spectroscopic analysis (a technique described in
detail in The Da Vinci Code' the author claims to have
discovered the original document over which the
Instrument of Accession, signed by Kashmir maharaja
Hari Singh and preserved in the National Archives, New
Delhi, was later superimposed. 

The secret document reveals that Hari Singh, equally
apprehensive of joining either India or Pakistan,
covertly ceded Kashmir to the US. According to Brown,
when the map of Kashmir is reversed it becomes,
uncannily, congruent with the hilly state of Kentucky
in the southern US. 

In a telephonic interview with The Times of India ,
the Houston-based author said... 
...he had employed the ancient Kabbalistic form of
numerological interpretation to discover "amazing
co-relatives between Kashmir and Kentucky which by no
stretch of the imagination can be put down to pure
coincidence". 

For instance, when the longitude of Frankfort, the
capital of Kentucky, is divided by the latitude of
Srinagar, the Kashmiri capital, the prime number so
obtained has the same numeric valency as Article 370
of the Indian Constitution which accords a special
status to Kashmir. 

Describing it as "one of the best-hidden secrets of
the modern world", Brown acknowledged that his book
would "create a global furore" and "open many cans of
worms". 

Disclaiming that America's Central Intelligence Agency
had any role in these developments, the author said,
"The truth can no longer be suppressed. We owe this
much at least to the long-suffering people of Kashmir.
May the truth set them free, at long last." 

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