LOSING PROPOSITION, GOLD OR NO GOLD
The ASI has started digging a mound near the fort of Raja Rao Ram Bux Singh in Unnao district, to find the alleged 1000-5000 tonnes of hidden gold, as prophesied by a local Sadhu: Shobhan Sarkar, who claims to have been given the secret hideout in his dream.
Now regardless of what happens we are the losers
A. If we do FIND the Gold, [and if we do, I should presume it would be a very tiny fraction of the alleged quantities] this could be a find with some probability but it will spawn uncontrollable superstition, heresy, rule of dreams, and a spree of earth digging
B. If we don’t – as should more likely happen – we would have cut a very sorry figure, almost comic, in this day and age. The label “the land of the naked fakir” will truly and well apply to us, our snake-charmer image reinforced. How embarrassing and insulting to our scientific and rational force. Including your Groups!
What sayeth thou?
