Indians do have a fascination for 'white skin/complexion' which is apparently a hangover of the colonial era as the white-skinned British ruled the country with iron hand for more than 100 years. When something is said by a white-skinned person (say American, Briton or a European), Indians tend to believe that the statement might have at least some realism in it.

That the 'Sethu Bridge', witnessed in satellite photographs focusing beneath the sea-water linking India and Sri Lanka wasn't a work of an artist`s illusion but a real structure has been reiterated time and again by the BJP and other Hindutva organizations in the past. Those who didn`t believe it earlier have started doing so after an American TV channel broadcast a video stating that the bride is real`.

A promotional video released by a scientific television channel has asserted that the Sethu Bridge (which is referred to in Hindus' epic Ramayanai as the bridge constructed by Lord Hunuman`s army of monkeys to enable Lord Ram to cross over to Lanka to wage battle against monster king Raavan) beneath the sea is a real structure`. Also referred to as Adam`s Bridge, the video has been watched by more than a million.

Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani has shared the video on her Twitter account. “The stones used to construct the bridge are at least 7,000 years old; there are some sand dunes along the 30-mile long bridge but they formed only after the brideg was constructed. The sand dunes are only 4,000 years old,” the video said.