by Shubhrangshu Roy, philosopher, poet, researcher, photographer, former Editor-in-chief of the Financial Chronicle in partnership with The New York Times. Published in 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬 https://shubhrangshuroy.com/essays/saffron-shadows/the-wasteland

“𝒪𝓇𝒾ℊ𝒾𝓃𝒶𝓁, 𝓈𝒸𝒽ℴ𝓁𝒶𝓇𝓁𝓎, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 ℊ𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓅𝒾𝓃ℊ𝓁𝓎 𝒽ℴ𝓃ℯ𝓈𝓉”

Highlights

“Iran is that desolate expanse, dotted with oases towns, that the Sassanid called Eransahr, their dominion, ruled mostly through history by non-Persian races, Each one of these invaders …, since the dawn of human memory, has left behind their cultural imprint on a vast desert wasteland we still call Iran, where they rode from oasis to oasis to occupy territory, 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓌ℯ𝓈𝓉ℯ𝓇𝓃 𝓈𝒸𝒽ℴ𝓁𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓀ℯ𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝒾𝓂𝒶ℊ𝒾𝓃ℯ 𝓉ℴ 𝒷ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒶𝓃𝒸ℯ𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓁 𝒽ℴ𝓂ℯ𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹 ℴ𝒻 𝓉𝒽ℯ𝒾𝓇 𝓂𝒶𝓀ℯ-𝒷ℯ𝓁𝒾ℯ𝒻 𝒜𝓇𝓎𝒶𝓃 𝓇𝒶𝒸ℯ.
One month into American bombings, Iran is at that forever twilight moment in the immensity of time through which its rulers have carved their remarkable journeys in the ‘wasteland’ of civilizations from one oasis to another…”

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