CATITAN SANTAI: December 2009

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Istana Raja Bersiong

Istana Raja Bersiong yg terdapat berhampiran Taman Tabung Haji, Kepala Batas, Kedah Darul Aman merupakan satu peninggalan sejarah yg telah diabaikan. Menurut sumber yg boleh dipercayai istana ini asalnya milik Raja Bersiong kemudiannya telah diwarisi oleh Tengku Kudin. Persoalannya kenapa bangunan kolonial dipulihara tetapi bangunan yg dibina oleh anak bangsa sendiri diabaikan? Ini soalan bonus yang harus dijawab oleh SIAPA?

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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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Istana Raja Bersiong