Monday, October 4, 2010

Har ghar chup chaap se ye kehta hai ...

Har ghar chup chaap se ye kehta hai
ki ander isme kaun rehta hai .....

Hai to ye nerolac ka add. But here I would like to take it in another concept...
Seen those historical monuments? I always have this thought .. What if these buildings could speak? What all could they tell? They would have been like those grand dads and grand moms who would tell their stories. Compare new and old times. It would have been so cool! I mean there would have been no misconceptions. History, which is so full of guesses, would have been so correct. They could have told about the kings and queens, their habits, their stories, their secrets.. so much. I wonder if they could voice their worries. Would they have told us that they want us to stop the pollution because that is deteroiting them. If Taj Mahal could have talked, it would have told us if it is actually a mughal architecture or a Shiv Temple as they say. The forts would tell us the stories of how it would be during the wars. How the heroic soldiers would fight and protect the common man. Oh it would have been so wonderful to know the real tales of Rani Laxmi Bai, of Bhagat Singh, Akhbar Badshah ... the real heroes.
When I visit any kind of old monument or heritage buildings, I try to listen to it. I try to hear the silences. Imagine the people, the way they would walk , talk, eat.. the floors i am standing on? some 300 yrs ago, people from that age walked on it. .. was that a light carefree walk or heavy, weighed down by responsibilities trudges? Those walls ... they touched it .... What were their worries? These walls would have witnessed smiles, tears, anger, betrayal, conspiracies ... Oh .. what all do these walls know? What secrets are buried within? I try to feel the air... the unfulfilled wishes hanging around. I enjoy the eerie feeling i get when i am near these old buildings.
Superficially, they stand their silently. I hope whatever we know about them .. we have heard them correctly.

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