YOUR SAY

Where In India

We asked you to identify this structure. This turned out to be a tough one. Correct answer came from reader Bhanu Kothari: Baz Bahadur’s Jahaz Mahal, Mandu, Madhya Pradesh, built in the 15th century, during the reign of Mandu Sultan Ghiyas-ud-din Khilji, to accommodate the women belonging to the royal consortium. The particular feature pictured here shows channels for rain water harvesting.

Forged By Fire

Our readers share some heartfelt poetry as we stand together through the devastating bushfires

Firey

By Melissa Domingo

Go easy, one of courage!

Through amber and through haze, Gold of heart the single match, For golden of the flame. How measured is your inhale; As you become the rain, How permanent your exhale; To quell another’s pain. Raging of the embers, Reflect in scarlet eyes, ‘Midst ash of devastation, Now ash of sacrifice.

Respect and admiration, Lie wasted below price, But prayer shall storm the heavens; A shield in burning fight.

Three men once stood in furnace; Inferno to their end, Then fourth appeared alongside, At core of personal hell. Eyes affixed upon the fourth, Not single hair came singed, The fourth still walks infernos, And ploys of death unhinge. Go easy, one of courage!

Through amber and through haze, Gold of heart the cooling hope, In heat of hopeless days.