[Reader-list] The LOC code

[Aman Malik]

I am rather amused that such a nonsensical article in The Times Of
India has been taken so seriously by people on this otherwise well
informed forum.

AM

On Apr 1, 2005 3:44 PM, Vivek Narayanan <vivek at sarai.net> wrote:
> 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."
> 
> Copyright (c) 2005 Times Internet Limited. All rights reserved.
> 
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