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raushan
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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 Topic initiated on Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 11:27 AM 
The Towers of Silence
The choicest residential area in Bombay is Malabar Hill, where gleaming mansions and apartments house the city's elite. But the crown of the hill remains a jungle, thick with date palms and banyan trees, girded by two concentric walls that protect it from the encroachments of civilization. Inside the walls, amid the trees, are six low, stadium-like enclosures. Residents of Bombay know them as dokhmas—the "towers of silence." It is to these structures that the city's powerful community of Parsis bring the bodies of their dead, exposing them to the air so that scavenger birds can pick the corpses clean.
TOWERS OF SILENCE
Edited by: raushan on Monday, December 22, 2008 6:33 AM |
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hkhan
UNITED KINGDOM
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Posted - Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 11:08 PM 
indeed complete silence is the place for the dead, not for living.when you remain completely silent, its not only the absence of sound, its the absence of the mind as well...  |
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raushan
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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Posted - Monday, December 22, 2008 - 6:38 AM
[quote.., its the absence of the mind as well...
Silence is unique trait of human.Ironically,it comes when we know more and therefore have many things to say.
I prefer to believe that our world is full of noises from those who have their minds absent and people with presence of mind speak less almost equal to silence.isnt it? |
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aboosait
INDIA
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Posted - Monday, December 22, 2008 - 2:02 PM
quote:
...............people with presence of mind speak less .............
Those are the people speak less but to the point n right on topic.
They are,
Frank- (Direct and unreserved in speech)
Blunt- (Abrupt in address or manner) and
Concise- (Brief in form but comprehensive in scope)
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