Owais Mughal
I saw this photo in Dawn and it disturbed me. It talks about how archaeological department has used cement mortar to preserve a 3rd century BC stupa in Taxila. This may be in violation of UNESCO guidelines.
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I am not an archeological expert but even I can tell that using cement on a 2300 year old structure is not the right thing. I did a mini web search and found that originally the stupa was coated with lime plaster and gilding. Dharmarajika stupa is one of the 8 buildings that were built during the time of Mauryan dynasty to house Buddha’s relics.
I used the word Javedan in the title only to get your attention. I don’t know which brand of cement was used here. Whichever it is, it seems wrong.
SONICS CAN SCRATCH 7-YEAR ITCH WIN TONIGHT WOULD SEND SEATTLE TO SECOND ROUND FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1998.(Sports)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer May 3, 2005 | O’Neil, Danny Byline: DANNY O’NEIL P-I reporter The Sonics’ success didn’t happen overnight. Their arrival did.
The team’s charter flight landed shortly after 1 a.m. yesterday, three hours removed from their Game 4 comeback victory in Sacramento. Five fans awaited the team’s arrival at Boeing Field, a handful of support that was nonetheless a hint that the city is no longer sleeping on the Sonics. Despite the relatively low number of fans waiting, their enthusiasm rubbed off on the team.
“The hugs were bigger, the handshakes were stronger,” said Lorin Sandretsky, one of the fans at the airport.
It was the energy of anticipation. The Sonics enter tonight’s Game 5 against the Kings standing one victory away from winning a playoff series for the first time in seven years, one victory away from the validation that only postseason success can provide. see here 7 year itch
“To win a playoff series, it’s not one of us, it’s all of us that did it,” guard Ray Allen said. “We all can take pleasure in knowing that we put something special together.” Allen didn’t sleep on the plane ride home. He’s the chairman of the Sonics’ card game, spreading out a blanket on a table and holding court. Almost everyone stayed awake, eyes on the opportunity in front of them.
“It’s something new for us,” coach Nate McMillan said. “And you just try and prepare them for a great opportunity.” The Sonics have never lost a playoff series they led 3-1. The question is whether the Sonics can show a finishing touch they lacked in the regular season, which they ended with eight losses in the final 10 games.
Game 6 would be in Sacramento on Friday, but that will be necessary only if the Kings win tonight. So do the Sonics, with half their players in their first postseason, possess that predator’s instinct to finish off a vulnerable opponent? this web site 7 year itch
“That’s something that comes with experience, a little bit of maturity,” guard Antonio Daniels said. “We need to realize the opportunity that we have ahead of us. It’s a great opportunity, but we know it’s not going to be easy.” It sure looked simple on Sunday, when the Sonics’ game plan could have been boiled down to handing the ball to Allen, and getting out of the way. His 45 points matched Fred Brown’s franchise record for playoff scoring. In his first postseason series as a Sonic, he has yet to score fewer than 25 points in a game and has carried them to the brink of a series victory. Not that he’d acknowledge it.
“This series is scheduled for seven games,” Allen said. “I’m not going to ahead of myself to say, `We have to close them out.’ “You start thinking ahead, and you get burnt.” So instead, take a look in the rearview mirror on Allen’s 21/2 seasons in Seattle since general manger Rick Sund acquired him from the Milwaukee Bucks.
The Sonics went 18-12 in ’03 after acquiring him, but had the franchise’s first losing season in 16 years. He missed the first 25 games of the 2003-04 season, and the Sonics missed the playoffs again.
And now this, a season in which the goal was simply to make the playoffs. Yet the Sonics could advance to the second round for the first time since beating the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round in 1998.
“It’s not an individual accomplishment, but I would take so much validation just for Rick Sund’s having traded for me,” Allen said.
After Game 4, Allen said his executive assistant, Orin Mayers, posed a question.
“He was saying, `I wonder how people in Milwaukee feel when they watch a game like that, knowing you’re playing on another team?’” Allen said. “It just gives so much credence to why I’m here in the first place.
“There’s a reason why I’m here. I know I wasn’t just brought here to fill out a roster. I hope every other guy feels the same way.” Allen gathered his team at center court on Sunday at Arco Arena just as he did on Friday night after losing Game 3. The circumstances had changed, though. The Kings’ fans were no longer creating a deafening roar. Instead, they were deflated.
“We said that we don’t want to come back here,” Rashard Lewis said of the postgame huddle. “Because if we have to go back to Arco Arena, it’s going to be very tough to beat them for Game 6 in their home building. They’re so energetic.” And now the Kings come to KeyArena, their chins exposed and the question is, can the Sonics can deliver a knockout punch?
“I think everybody is ready to finish the series,” forward Vladimir Radmanovic said. “Nobody wants to go back to Sacramento.” P-I reporter Danny O’Neil can be reached at 206-448-8209 or dannyo’neil@seattlepi.com O’Neil, Danny
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Owais, what is really sad is the ignorance of this. I am sure the folks at the dept. must be might proud of themselves…. “pucca kaam kiya hai, sir ji!”
I am surprised though, I have been impressed in the past by at least some of the people in that department and their personal commitment, despite the chronic lack of resources. Using cement on such a site seems so amateurish that I can’t imagine even our govt. dept. doing so. Although the picture clearly suggests it did.
Do we have any more info. on why they did so… was a ‘dignitary’ about to visit and they had to spruce it up quickly! Or, perhaps, the over-enthusiasm or some functionary?
Sad, to say the least. Ghalib perhaps said this for Pakistan
koi aablaa paa iss waadee’ay purkhaar main aaway
It is true that to mullahs and the illiterate masses at large this is the sign of long gone infidels but for the concerned dept. to do this is criminal.
Adil sahib, you are perfectly right. This kind of stuff goes on at all the time down there. The departments are proud of “preserving” these old monuments but if you go down and actually see them, there is nothing old left in them. Kamran’s Baradari looks like someone built it 20 years ago (from the condition it is in right now, I think it might be impossible to tell but anyways, the work done on it is contemporary). Similar is the fate of many other monuments. I don’t know who gets these jobs and how they get them. I am sure we have some bright archaeology students in our various universities and colleges who probably learned more in their first day of classes. We should set up a system for these students to do field work as experience to improve the condition of our dilapidated monuments. Maybe we can have them design ways of preserving these monuments for their class projects or something.
Unsurprisingly, the government’s handling of this issue is regrettable. However, it is also hard to justify elaborate restorations of historical sites when a sizable portion of your population is in abject poverty.
Baoo’jee, as Parfaisar Saab said, onoo hayaath-e-javedaan diththee ‘ey!
Okay, so, as puns go, that’s what is called a “groaner”.
[...] (3) Rani Kot fort in Sindh. Some contrator hired by the archeology department has ‘criminally’ used ‘cement’ while restoring a domed room to its original era when cement was not even invented. We had a similar post earlier here, when modern day mortar reportedly got used to preserve buddha era stupas. [...]
That javedan trick lured me in. only because my dad used to be a GM at that factory back in 86-89. We used to live in the Javedan Cement factory’s officers colony in Manghopir (a driving distance from the famous manghopir crocodiles).
As for the stupas, i dont know much about this topic. All i know is people in the BC had better sewage systems than what we have today.