{"id":111217,"date":"2021-01-31T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T00:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111217"},"modified":"2021-01-31T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T00:31:51","slug":"point-of-view-on-the-proposed-indian-expedition-to-ram-setu-adams-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/31\/point-of-view-on-the-proposed-indian-expedition-to-ram-setu-adams-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Point of view on the proposed Indian expedition to Ram Setu\/Adam\u2019s Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwaar<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>As it is\nrevealed (Jan 31 (Island) Indian scientists will soon undertake a possibly\nfirst scientific expedition to date the chain of corals and sediments forming\nthe Ram Setu, also known as Adam\u2019s Bridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This 48-km long bridge-like structure between India\nand SL finds <\/strong>mention in the great Hindu epic\nRamayana, but little is known or scientifically proven about its formation.\nRecently, a central advisory board on archaeology, functioning under the\nArchaeological Survey of India (ASI), approved the project proposal submitted by\nmore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since this area\nstretches between two countries (India and Sri Lanka) and it is politically\nvery sensitive area&nbsp; I think this study\nshould be a joint venture .As the news item reveals the study is undertaken by\nIndia without consultation or collaboration with Sri Lanka&nbsp; would like to draw the attention of Sri\nLankan authorities&nbsp; to get in touch with\nthe Indian Government and get this project converted to a by partisan study&nbsp; so that both countries can share the results\nand avoid any future possible&nbsp; conflicts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwaar As it is revealed (Jan 31 (Island) Indian scientists will soon undertake a possibly first scientific expedition to date the chain of corals and sediments forming the Ram Setu, also known as Adam\u2019s Bridge. This 48-km long bridge-like structure between India and SL finds mention in the great Hindu epic Ramayana, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}