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Verappan Adventure on SALE !!!!

I came across thir article while surfing through the news. These days in the time of IPL marketing and glitzy ad campaigns almost everything which could never be imagined to be sold in on the block. Now even dacoits and gangsters... I was reading through this article about Veerapan trails being opened as tourist attraction. I was feeling sorry for those hundreds of policemen who laid their lives fighting him and defending the state. I believe instead the hardships faced by security forces in the fight and their bravery should have been highlighted. It looks to me a simple attempt to glorify a criminal and disrespecting all those valliant warriors. http://in.news.yahoo.com/32/20100414/1053/tnl-cashing-in-on-veerappan-s-infamy.html Wed, Apr 14 11:40 AM Bangalore, April 14 -- The tourism and forest departments of BJP-governed Karnataka plan to launch terror tourism, based on the life and trails of forest brigand Veerappan, shot down by a special police team in 2004. Tourism Director K V...