I am sure most of you must have received in some fashion messages from various mediums ( tv,radio,email,sms etc ) urging you to vote for the taj mahal so that it gets included in the list of seven wonders.... it got me wondering...wasnt the taj already in the list of the seven wonders??? then why the hell does the media require us indians to vote on its inclusion...... is the taj competing for its very survival? i smelt a fish somewhere....so i investigated and found something very interesting indeed....taj was not on the seven wonders list ever!! in fact there is no concrete list of the seven wonders at all! everything that we know about the seven wonders is all speculation and is based on unverified lists sourced from various manuscripts.... in any case taj is not mentioned in any of these lists
Our modern understanding of the seven wonders is a media campiagn promoted by a swiss based for profit corporation called the New Open World Corporation promoted by a Swiss Businessman called Bernard Weber...ever year they come out with some list listing seven wonders based on paid and free votes. The first vote is free to registered members and additional votes may be purchased through a payment to NOWC. In addition to the sale of votes, NOWC relies on private donations, the sale of merchandise such as shirts and cups, and revenue from selling broadcasting rights.
According to the NOWC milestones page, Swiss businessman Bernard Weber launched the project in September 1999. By November 24, 2005, 177 monuments were up for consideration. To be included on the new list, the wonders had to be man-made, completed before 2000, and in an "acceptable" state of preservation. On January 1, 2006, the NOWC said the list had been narrowed to 21 sites, In addition to free votes, votes can be bought from NOWC by any individual, organization or government. As explained in its Terms and Conditions, NOWC "reserves the right at its absolute discretion to exclude [any] votes" that are cast.
The final list is planned to be announced on July 7, 2007, or 07.07.07, in Lisbon, Portugal, in the Estádio da Luz, Benfica's stadium.
So basically the money that we spend in sms'ing , phoning directly goes to the swiss government in creating a stupid list that is anyways going to be revised in a years time!!!
The swiss think like marwaris man! stupid fucking gullible people..... imagine the billions of rupees that are gonna be made on this scam campaign..tch tch tch...
