Breaking the walls of Jericho

The walls of Jericho could fall but not a brick of Indian heritage. Every piece of land has its own share of history and future. Once it’s past, it is a story. India is truly a land of fairytale then (perhaps not as pleasurable) as it keeps its stories alive. What keeps it going is not the question here. But what keeps it from not letting go?
Be it Kashmir or Ayodhya, barely any dispute settles in this part of land. India talks of being the super power in next 30-40 years. But what use is it calling the most advanced country while it carries such backlogs? Though it is wondrous to observe how a civilization has evolved within the same construct, that is, if it is considered to have evolved at all.
Ayodhya is one such time machine that makes one’s existence stretch within the dimension of time. Neither is the year of Babar’s construction known, nor is Ramayana dated. Yet the verdict was required, thinking of future. Perhaps the question here deserves to be reclusive, as the rest of the world assigns more importance to form an opinion about the verdict. But media has place for such lunatic questions too, which problematizes the issue under evolution than religion.
Jericho and Varanasi are 2 of such cities which are oldest and “continuously inhabited”. Ayodhya is 217 kms from Varanasi. Jericho has been invaded several times by Assyrians, Babylonians untill it was handed over to the Palestinian Authority Control in 1994. Land, invasion and human, have been characteristically integral – struggle for a space of existence. Can Ayodhya be related to this in anyways? No, but then the emotional and cognitive changes do comply with the sense of evolution. Human evolution indeed it is, without humanity then.

The Question of Questioning

Life’s numb without astonishments. Things are reduced to only what they appear and when the appearance is known the senses shut the doors to perceive anything more. But something new in the old surprises and asks to look more – perhaps the eye of a crow which was unseen or the storms of Jupiter. The unknown astonishes and induces questions. The questions provide a reason, without which a human mind refuses to accept. It is fundamental to human existence. But the irony between acceptance and asking makes it even more beautiful. Throughout human evolution it is the urge of question that has lead through developments and changes, and not the answer. The answer is an absolution, a full stop mark to a sentence.

Then again, it is perception. A full stop mark can lead to the beginning of another sentence. It is a choice. Then all bottoms down to the vulnerability of senses – how open they are to astonishments.

There’s an astonishing element in everything known, that asks to question.