Dear Readers,
The touring is on across the length and breadth of Bikaner sub-division and with each passing day, I set my eyes upon beautiful landscape hitherto untrodden by me and get to learn about mysterious and interesting phenomenon. One of the recent visits to places like Bajju and Sri Kolayat was an enchanting experience. Sri Kolayat is a great place of antiquary significance. It is an oases, at the banks of which, the famous sage Kapil propounded his philosophical and epistemological doctrines.
The area around Sri Kolayat is mineral rich and accommodates various mines. Metals such as Gypsum and China clay are excavated out of these mines, some of which are so huge that an individual might get lost in them while negotiating his way out. It is an altogether different story that these mines are posing a grave threat to the eco-system of this location. The point I would like to make here is related to Geology.
Rocks unearthed from the different levels of the mines are a storehouse of information on the story of how our planet evolved into its present shape. Some of the specimen that we studied(all the credit goes to the gifted scholarship of my colleagues) were fossilized remains of sea mollusks dating back to millions of years. These fossils prove the existence of Tethys sea around this area about 200 million years ago.
After inhaling a deep breath, when one glances across the vast desert landscape around this point, he/she can imagine himself(without much difficulty) stranded in the middle of a terrifying, huge and roaring ocean. Such are the ripples of history which can transcend all set notions and compartments of time and space and pierce right into our soul even through these opaque obstructions. What a wonderful feeling it is to hold time in your hands......
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