Recently, we visited the Golden Temple at Sri Amritsar. And for the first time in my life, I had a careful look at the Sundial. Erected in the sixteenth century, it is well preserved. It is a small piece, but can tell time upto a few minutes accuracy. I am told they used to toll the bell to sound the passage of 'pahars' and 'gharis'.
They then erected towers on which they mounted clocks for every one to see time. But no one looks at them any more, when nearly every one has a wrist watch and a cell phone. I suppose, in due course of time, neither the clocks nor those towers will be of any significance. And then people will wonder why they were created, at such enormous cost! Change is indeed the only permanent thing in the world!
Maj Gen Surjit Singh (Retd)
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