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BridgesConjoin and carry, relate and linkEnds that areSeparated by divide, gulf, driftMeeting the nothingnessWith purpose, alliance, and shift! In pursuit of happiness The hiatus is often hugeThe gap, abyss, riftSo seemingly unbridgeable.Standing at one edgeI constantly wonder! How does one understandThe nature of this chasm?What stands between meAnd the end beyond?What is that impediment, thatContinue reading “Bridge to Happiness”

Have you ever seen a bridge?Floating, gliding, soaringAimlessly driftingOn a soft puffy bedIn colours brilliant and vibrantOf tender luminosity! I standOn this bridgeFloating and flyingIn the blissful nothingnessIn a beautiful voidLost to time and space! Am I thenA speck of a magnificent wholeFlowing with the tideOr, Am I the master ofA destiny and choiceBlessedly thatContinue reading “A Bridge in Clouds”

Puffed clumps of hallowed hollowsPink, Mauve, Violet, BlueSwim, Float, slide, glideIn the sea of nothingnessMajestically romping with grace andUncommon pulchritude! They butClash, collide, coalesceGently often but alsoViolently and brutallyAs if filled with rageOf uncontrolled ferocity! What if there wereBridges connecting them?Bridges that also float and glideMove and march with themWhat if, they effortlesslyShift from oneContinue reading “Bridges in the Clouds”

The Karamagara Bridge This bridge as representative in its design as of the era it belonged to, is under water today. But its engineering and architectural value remain as enduringly significant as its remarkable historicity. The bridge, along with much of the Arapgir Çayı valley, has been submerged since the completion of the Keban Dam onContinue reading “Bridges that Bridge Civilisations (Contd.)”

The Limyra Bridge of Turkey Built over 1800 years ago and not in the notice of the world at large till late, this antiquated and largely neglected bridge with its unique structure representing old world architecture and engineering, commands an uncommon and unusual value as a precious piece of antiquity.Located near Lymra in Lycia, Turkey, in aContinue reading “Bridges that Bridge Civilisations(Contd.)”

Band-e-KaisarThe Band-e Kaisar, also known as the Bridge of Valerian was a Roman stone arch bridge built in Shushtar, Iran. Around 260-270 CE when it was built, the bridge was combined with a dam – making Band-e Kaisar the first of its kind in Persia. The bridge-cum-dam is deep inside Persian territory, easily the eastern mostContinue reading “A Masterpiece of Creative Genius”

Cendere Bridge Cendere bridge located in the Adiyaman Province in south east Turkey, and built in the years 198-200 CE is as much a glorious relic of Roman bridge architecture as it is a reminder of a brutal and merciless fratricide.This Roman bridge is one of the best preserved structures of that era, and while aContinue reading “Bridges That Bridge Civilisations(Contd.)Shocking Monument of Royal Fratricide”

Public transport may be a pretty common thing today but the first attempts to introduce this revolutionary idea though greeted with great curiosity and amusement to begin with, petered out only as an interesting and entertaining experiment. The first public carriage plied on the unpaved road of Paris just for a few weeks.The idea wasContinue reading “The First Public Transport – Bridge between the Privileged and the Commoner”