A TALE OF TWENTY TWO CITIES

INTRODUCTION

We are all parts of a huge process, comprising of a series of smaller processes and transformations which are directed sometimes either towards a new start or to the end. It started God exactly knows when, but some of us are quite sure that our solar system existed in its present form some four billion years ago. During these times somewhere in the vast loneliness of our planet a single tiny cell of living matter was formed – hence starting a process within a process.

It seems that the first form of life was more intelligent than the later forms. These cells started living together, gradually rose to multi-cellular organisms and inhibited the Earth. It took them more than three million years to become dinosaurs. Communal life, somehow, for some reason became extinct and so did most of the species. A few that remained learnt from it and another process initialized.

Just five million years ago, hominids came to existence. Amongst them only those lived which chose to live together and share their artifacts. Millions of small communities got formed and then some of them became stronger, more inventive and productive than others, to form cities; and later a few of them even became civilizations. A few cities became states, developed themselves at the cross-roads of a process, some uniting a couple of civilizations formed empires and became salad bowls; a few of them–melting pots.

Processes within the processes gave rise to integration of different geographical and racial groups into national societies. Cultural, social and economic transformations within the transformations produced new goals like modernization, urbanization and industrialization. Today, we are not parts of any communities, city states or civilizations; but represent nations. The definitions will change as they did during all these times. The behaviors are the same as of our great great grand fathers and as their great great grand fathers had– fighting among ourselves and with others for nothing but recognition.

They say that when the eye and the ear conflict, the eye always wins. Sitting in my room, a library or a history class, I had heard myself and others telling a lot of stories about the worlds spread on my four sides and the different ways they had as compared to mine. As a matter of fact, it took me quite some time to differentiate between the fairy tales and the real ones.

A few days that I had, I got the once in a life-time opportunity to walk through various forms of prehistory, history and the present of the processes. I even dreamt of the future of these processes. And when I returned home, I came to believe that we are all surely parts of a huge process that could never be in a better phase than it is now.

SEEING IS BELIEVING !

ISBN 969 34 0000 3 1997

Chapter 1  –  GETTING STARTED
Chapter 2  –  PEAKS PROTECT THE DESERTS
Chapter 3  –  GATEWAY OF ALL NATIONS
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