CATITAN SANTAI: May 2010

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Apa ada pada lantai?

Foto 1: Lantai di telaga yang terdapat di Kota Ngah Ibrahim

Foto 2: Lantai di Kota A Famosa

Susunan bata yang unik bagi lantai di Kota A Farmosa menimbulkan persoalan kerana mempunyai susun atur yang hampir sama dengan lantai yang terdapat pada telaga di Kota Ngah Ibrahim. Adakah susun atur ini satu “password” kepada suatu jawapan dari persoalan yang berlegar di minda ini. Kenapa telaga ini ditimbus oleh British ketika mereka menduduki Kota Ngah Ibrahim tersebut? Kalau Kota Ngah Ibrahim ada kaitan dengan Istana Raja Bersiong dan ada juga kaitan dengan Kota A Farmosa apakah maksud yang tersirat? Jawapan yang mudah ianya satu kebetulan... hmmm..

Quote from The Last Mughal, The Fall of Delhi 1857 by William Dalrymple, page 380.

Mirza Zafar Sultan was a deaf old man in 1917, his identity had been revealed when he had been taken to court after getting into a fight with a rich intoxicated Punjabi businessman who had taken out his riding whip and started beating the old man after his brick cart had collided with the businessman’s car. He had taken the first few blows quietly, but finally had mustered the courage to resist, and hit the businessman so hard he broke his nose. ‘The rich do not think anything of the poor, ‘ Zafar Sultan told the court. ‘But sixty years ago this man’s forefathers would have been my slaves. And not just them, but the whole of Hindustan used to obey my orders. I have not forgotten my lineage, so how could I tolerate such insults? Just look how that coward ran away when I hit him. It is not easy to endure a Timurid’s slap.’

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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Apa ada pada lantai?