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Ang Lee, beware! You’ve got competition from the Bangladeshi indie filmmaker TaaR CHeera Entertainment. It’s so real I can’t believe my eyes! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via The Awesomer
For years, two nations have both claimed the territory of an uninhabited island the Bangladeshis called South Talpatti Island and the Indians called New Moore Island. The dispute is now moot, as the island has vanished underwater.
“What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming,” said Professor Sugata Hazra of the School of Oceanographic Studies at Jadavpur University in Calcutta.
Anyone wishing to visit now, he observed, would have to think of travelling by submarine.
The island never rose more than about six feet above sea level. Professor Hazra predicts more islands in the Indian Ocean will vanish as sea levels rise. Link -via J-Walk Blog
Photo: our_bangladesh [Flickr]
It took almost 20 years for the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan to build the Taj Mahal in the 1600s, but it took only 5 years for wealthy movie director Ahsanullah Moni to build his replica near Dhaka, Bangladesh:
He has imported marble and granite from Italy, diamonds from Belgium and used 160kg of bronze for the dome.
In support of his project, he said: "Everyone dreams about seeing the Taj Mahal but very few Bangladeshis can make the trip because it’s too expensive for them."
The Indians, however aren’t amused and are thinking of suing Moni for copyright infringement: Link | Reuter has the video – via Oddly Enough, Thanks Robert Basler !
