With every heritage course lecture come a bunch of mind boggling facts, truths and some hilarious myths into light. Mr. Vikas Dilawari the keynote speaker and a Heritage Conservation Architect (a.k.a Guardians of Monumental sources of history) talked to us about the need to conserve our heritages and the modes of achieving this objective. His lecture hinted us about the innocence of a Gothic structure being affected by tall intimidating sky scrappers, displaced by them to be precise. Conservation of a monument lies in retaining its authenticity. A monument is historic only when it stands as a reflection of the times it belongs to, without that and with white washing and distemper it is just another building. Some would say it is the corpse of a monument. We sensed his disappointment about the Government and public apathy, towards the safeguarding of our monuments and preserving their sanctity.
Mr. Dilawari also laid down a foundation for Conservation of heritage becoming a Movement and not a fashion, by trying to inspire us. Rightly of him to expect so, as we students are the ones standing at those cross lanes where we have to choose between Rustic or Modern, Stone or Concrete, Revivalist or Progressive, The Roots or The Heights, Memorable or Useful and Careful or Careless!
- Pranav Sarma
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