Reflections on Life and Death

To Leave world shall be taken away? Then God will decide whom to settle in Paradise and whom to award punishment. O Man! You cannot tolerate even the hurt that a tiny pebble causes, but if you are not careful, an entire mountain of torments is going to burst upon on you soon when you die and face the eternal Hereafter! To Leave W hen the British ruled India, Calcutta was for long the capital of the country. Then, in 1911, the British decided to shift the capital to Delhi. The British architect, Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), prepared the plan for the new capital. Construction work began in 1913, to the south of Delhi, and soon a magnificent city—New Delhi—came into being. This was a time when a new political wave had overtaken much of the world—that of nationalist movements. These revolutionary stirrings had undermined the very rationale of colonialism. A freedom movement had established its roots in India. It was evident that British rule in India would not last very long. After New Delhi was established, a French leader came on a visit to India. When he came to New Delhi and saw the grand buildings of the new capital, he commented, “What a magnificent world they built to leave!”