I recently read a page from Paulo Coelho's latest book"Like the flowing river". In it he narrates an incident visiting a place inGermany. I am giving the details below for you to read:
"Isn't this an interesting monument?'says Robert.The late autumn sun is beginning to set.We are in a town in germany. 'I can't see anything', I say.'Just an empty square'. 'The monument is beneath our feet',Robert insists. I look down.I see only plain slabs,all of them the same.I don't want to disappoint my friend,but I can't see anything else in the square. Robert explains: ` It is called "The invisible Monument". Carved on the underneath of each of these stones is the name of a place where Jews were killed.Anonymous artists created this square during the Second World War,and continued adding slabs as new places of extermination were discovered.Even if no one could see them,it would remain here as a witness, and the future would end up finding out the truth about the past'. 'What will happen if Dalits wants to do the same?',I wonder. First they need a land and then the artists to create a square. They have a long list to inscribe:Venmani,Villupuram,Unjanai,Puliankudi,Bodi,Melavalavu,Kodiya nkulam,TamirabaraniĀ Recent additions in the list are Sedapalayam,Sethukollai. I request the Dalit writers to built a monument through their writings.Inscribe your words with the blood of these victims and make a square with them.No need of land.No need of slabs.Through our works we can recreate the lives, we lost.
