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Monuments and Cities Destroyed in Wars and Conflicts: Heart-breaking Tales of Lost Heritage

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  (image source: wondermondo.com) Surviving For Centuries And Demolished In One Day Images of some ruins get imprinted in our minds as children. The most prominent among them could be the half-destroyed dome of Hiroshima. For me, this monument embodied the cruellest of all deaths, that is, by the fire mushroom that we see in a nuclear explosion.  This building- skeleton also reminded me of the defeat of Hitler and the fall of Nazism. Strangely enough, this interplay of politics, history, and human emotions crafts one’s mental geography of this building.  As I grew up, this image also evolved to symbolise war, nuclear threat, and human tragedy. My mind had learned to make the topic broader and abstract. The French philosopher Guiles Deleuze has theorised how the visual imagery of post-World War  I I   was impacted by the ruins of war - demolished and abandoned buildings and the scars on the civilisation. From the colossal library in Alexandria of ancient times to...

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