I got disheartened when I read the news, recently. I had never imagined reading such news in my lifetime. The British-era building at Dummugudem has to be dismantled, sooner or later. The news came from none other than concerned authorities, and that too, a decision taken at the request of their people. So no second thoughts from any of the onlookers. Yes, the building is ancient and at the same time, there is some regal outlook even in the ending days. Furniture, walls, and decorative crafting got severely damaged. For the last decade, it has been used as a bank branch, and before it was used as a library also. After things get worse, they have been shifted to somewhere else.
The building was built by a Zamindar in the British era. He constructed it to live here whenever he came here to supervise tax collection. The year of the construction is exactly not known but some old-generation people said that it is almost more than a hundred years old. With every passing natural calamity, the building was getting ruined partially. Concerned heirs have gone far-off places on their other avocations. Neighbors of the building started their voices to dismantle the construction to avoid untimely accidents when it fell. With the opinion of locals, heirs also seemed to accept to erase the sign of the old construction.
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Those British-era zamindari mansions and crumbling castles scattered across the Indian subcontinent are slowly fading into time. Each carried tales that may never reach the ears of the next generation. But perhaps, that’s just the way the circle of life goes. Some stories stay, some quietly slip away.
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