This recent act of "Torching the manuscripts" might have escaped my thought if my friend didn't bring it to my notice yesterday, and hearing about it doesn't make it sound like a rare occurrence because "Destruction during Retreat " can easily be dated back to time immemorial.Take torching of Nalanda University which was ransacked and destroyed by an army under Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1193. The great library of Nalanda University was so vast that it is reported to have burned for three months after the invaders set fire to it, ransacked and destroyed the monasteries, and drove the monks from the site.This recent vexatious event bring to light that the Islamic Radicals Tuaregs who claim to fight for the country have no respect for country's rich cultural heritage and they are no better than a A B or C invader.Timbuktu, the fabled desert city where retreating Muslim extremists destroyed ancient manuscripts, was a center of Islamic learning hundreds of years before Columbus landed in the Americas.Written in ornate calligraphy, these manuscripts form a compendium of learning on everything from law, sciences, astrology and medicine to history and politics, which academics say prove Africa had a written history at least as old as the European Renaissance.Hearing about loss of this " Knowledge treasure" makes one sad but dwelling deep I infer that this is the core of human nature ..... We intend to harm the thing if we do not possess it..... that has been the way so far...shall be in future...
c'est la vie
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