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There is a class of intellectual who delights in debunking any sort of modern finding that relates at all to an ancient belief or statement.

About 14,700 years ago the Antarctic ice cap began melting rapidly. It didn't all melt, but something like 90% of it did. This raised world ocean levels several hundred feet.

The Adams Bridge, or Ramayana Bridge, was open to the surface at that time.

Any literary knowledge of that structure would have had to have been handed down over that entire period of time until "writing" was invented. Although the gentleman who seeks to debunk the whole story says the oldest known "Ramayana" is only 1500 years old, he is referring ONLY to the oldest known copy! (He knows it too, but he also knows how we are expected to understand what he said. This is a very misleading statement). Other analysts have demonstrated conclusively that there are elements in the story that are much older.

Some people would like to date the Ramayana and the Mahabarata as being older than the Uppanishads, and maybe parts are, but that only takes you back to early Classical times, shortly after the worldwide destruction that occurred about 1875BC (or 2001BC, depending on your dating techniques).

As old as these stories are, you don't have to be a genius to have noted that when Moses "edited" the ancient scriptures in his possession he left out all the animal stories except those that concerned the snake (his political emblem). The Ramayana has most of those stories available for edification and entertainment.

I know that's not terribly sophisticated, but it does take the animal stories back to Moses time, which is roughly in the time period when most of it would seem to have taken place. Now, about the Great Flood? Was that 14700 years ago, or only 7,000 years ago, or maybe 9100 years ago when, in fact, we know certain great floods did happen.

Thank you for saving me from having to tell about the flooding. I'm amazed how many people are totally unaware about marine archeology, and the stupendous discoveries of stone cities under the sea in locations that would only have been above sea level 15,000 years ago. A few of those sites are found off the subcontinent's shoreline.

Perhaps this bridge was really a causeway, linking islands like jewels in a necklace to Sri Lanka. Either way, it would have been a great civil engineering feat. And that, civil engineering, has been what I've always thought among the finest achievements of Indian Civilisation.

It is unfortunate that many in America and Europe are ignorant of India's great structures.

""The Ramayana itself is not that old. Nor had human habitation occurred 1.75 million years ago," Sharma, an acknowledged authority on ancient Indian history, said.
The oldest evidence of the Ramayana is around 400 BC ........ "Even if you want to rely on literary evidence, the oldest literary evidence available is only from 1500 BC."

D N Jha, professor of history at Delhi University, ......... The issue had "more to do with geology than history", since the claim was 1.75 million years old....... Linking just anything found with Ramayana or Mahabharata may be mythology, but it certainly isn't history," said Jha.""

Here we have two people who disagree with you, not just one person who "delights in debunking." We also see that Sharma said that the earliest evidence was from 1500 BC, not 1500 years ago, as you said. We also are reminded that the claim is that the bridge was built 1,750,000 years ago. Is this reasonable?