Dear Debbie
I am writing to reassure you that is not a hoax. Crores and lakhs are the
way large numbers of Rupees in India are quantified-I was there last year
and unfortunately cannot remember exactly how it goes, but its something
like a lakhs are 50,000 ruppes and crores are a million lakhs (I don't think
that is right, but its something like that) Since, when I was there, the
exchange was something like 45 rupees to the dollar, the numbers become mind
bogglingly huge. I never really did comprehend how much things cost during
my trip. I wish I knew my currencies better, but that is the gist of it.
As things can get very tense in India, with the numbers of people, religions
and languages, it's nearly impossible for us in the west to begin to
understand it. It's the most complicate, and amazing place I've ever been.
The idea that someone would torch a library and also a vegetable cart for
the same reason gives you only a glimmer in to the strange logic. Sadly, I
fear, its very true.
Regards
Miriam Schaer
On 4/15/05 1:20 PM, "Debbie Kogan" <debbie_kogan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Somebody is pulling our leg, right? Is the entire kanglaonline website a
hoax?
If it is a hoax, it's a pretty elaborate hoax. When I googled on "crores"
to find out if this was an authentic unit of currency somewhere in the
> world, I got to this site http://www.kshitij.com/utilities/LnCtoMnB.shtml
Or am I the one who is out of touch with reality?
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:05:55 +0200
From: "Museum Security Network / Cultural Property Protection Net (Ton
Cremers)" <museum-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:
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1.45 lakh books destroyed in state's worst act of vandalism
The Imphal Free Press
IMPHAL, Apr 13: In a thoughtless and outrageous act that has deprived the
state of one of its major storehouses of knowledge, activists of the Meetei
Erol Eyek Loinasinlon Apunba Lup burnt down the state Central library at
Keisampat this afternoon, destroying over 1,45,000 books worth over Rs. 10
crores, many of them old and irreplacable editions.
...
The MEELAL, in a statement, also said it was responsible for the torching of
a truck carrying vegetables at Nagamapal last night.
The MEELAL has also given a deadline of April 15 to the vernacular daily,
the Ireipak, for carrying news in Meetei Mayek script on its frontpages.
http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=23044&typeid=
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