Afghanistan and Ahmedabad

In the history of the mankind, there are many instances of world cultural heritage falling victim to the ignorance and intolerance of a few pushed by religious, ideological and political motives. However in case of Afghanistan, we have witnessed, for the first time in human history, the state taking initiative to decree its subjects to destroy their own past. The state became the own enemy of its own culture and heritage, leading the way to the destruction of the efforts of several generations of archaeologists, numismatists, and art historians, and the collective memory of 3000 years of the history of the afghan people.

How can we channel our pain, despair, and anger towards those who destroyed the cultural heritage of Afghanistan, once the greatest melting ground of central Asia, a crossroads between east and west? One cannot restore what has been destroyed. Let us fight to save at least what is left, for ancient Bactria is part of the cultural heritage of the whole of humanity, not just of a distant country often forgotten and abandoned to its sad fate.