The Indian Government says it will go ahead with a controversial plan to build a sea lane in the Bay of Bengal despite a storm of protest from Hindus who say it will destroy a sacred site.
The project would allow ships to navigate the southern tip of India instead of skirting around Sri Lanka, cutting the journey between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal by more than 30 hours.
It would mean dredging sand banks that the Hindu epic Ramayana says were built by an army of monkeys to allow the god Ram to cross the narrow strip of sea between India and Sri Lanka and rescue his kidnapped wife.
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