About $22 Billion In Gold, Diamonds, Jewels Found In Indian Temple
"In Southern India a story that sounds like the plot line of a Hollywood adventure is unfolding. Over the past week, on orders from the country's Supreme Court, a panel has found a treasure estimated to be worth $22 billion in the underground vaults of a Hindu temple in Trivandrum, India."
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"The vaults had not been opened in about 150 years and the treasure spans some 500 years. India's Supreme Court ordered that the vaults of the temple be inventoried after a man filed a suit that worried about how the trust was caring for the riches."
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A billion here. A billion there. Pretty soon we will be talking about real money.
Posted by: Norman Costa | July 05, 2011 at 08:57 PM
My sole visit, many years ago, to India was to Trivandrum, where I lost my wallet.
Posted by: Dean C. Rowan | July 06, 2011 at 10:44 AM
How many years ago was this, Dean? Apart from the trauma of the lost wallet, how did you find Trivandrum?
Posted by: Sujatha | July 06, 2011 at 11:10 AM
Dean, you've been to India and never told me?
The wallet you lost is part of the $22 billion booty. The good folks of Trivandrum donated it to the Padmanabhaswamy Temple!
Posted by: Ruchira | July 06, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Sorry, it was only a tepid joke, the implicit punch line being that the $22B was in my wallet. Heck, I haven't even been to Indiana.
Posted by: Dean C. Rowan | July 06, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Dean, I ought to know you by now and should have cottoned on to that one. Actually, it was a pretty good joke.
Posted by: Ruchira | July 06, 2011 at 11:25 AM
My being bamboozled by Dean's 'tepid joke' is way funnier :D
Posted by: Sujatha | July 06, 2011 at 12:41 PM