[Reader-list] India fumes, Bangladesh Taj

[Shambhu Rahmat]

Weird thing is, is it a hoax? I had never heard of this until it
surfaced in BBC this week. Just wondering how such a huge project
could have happened and nobody in Bangladesh has heard of it. I have
been in the neighboring area recently, and surely someone would have
told me to go check it out.

Remember that whole brouhaha about Amitav Bacchan starring in a movie
about Sheikh Mujib. Also turned out to be untrue, although there was a
grain of truth-- Gaffar Chowdhury had said he had talked to Amitav.
>From there it became "to star".

Next they'll be reporting this story as "true"
http://unheardvoice.net/blog/2008/12/11/onion-goes-bangladesh/


> From: Rana Dasgupta <rana at ranadasgupta.com>
> India's embassy in Bangladesh on Wednesday voiced its displeasure over a
> life-size copy of the Taj Mahal, saying it would investigate to see if
> any copyright laws had been breached.
>
> "You can't just go and copy historical monuments," fumed a spokesman at
> the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.
>
> "Someone will go out there and have a look. The reports we are reading
> say it is an exact replica. This is a protected site we are talking
> about so we need to find out if it really is the exact size," he told AFP.
>
> Bangladeshi film director Ahsanullah Moni unveiled his $ 58 million
> replica, located about 30 kilometres (20 miles) northeast of the
> Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, this week.