Rudyard Kipling Bridge Builders

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Cover of the book Rudyard Kipling Bridge Builders by Rudyard Kipling, A Word To The Wise
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Author: Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 9781780008189
Publisher: A Word To The Wise Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Rudyard Kipling
ISBN: 9781780008189
Publisher: A Word To The Wise
Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint:
Language: English
Bridge Builders (1893) by the British writer Rudyard Kipling is an Indian story about the building of the Kashi Bridge. The story mainly displays Kiplings mastery of the technical details and knowledge related to bridge building. His biographers agree that the author acquired this knowledge through interacting with British civil engineers who were assigned by the Crown to build numerous bridges in India as part of the industrial movement in British India. The building of the Kashi is under the supervision of Engineer Findlayson. At a certain moment, Findlayson is lured into opium consumption and apparently starts to hallucinate. He dreams that the bridge is threatened to be destroyed by Indian gods who consider such a project as a desecration of the natural world. They decide to flood the city and the question that keeps on haunting Findlaysons mind is whether his bridge would survive the natural catastrophe or not. Fortunately for him, the bridge eventually resists the flood. Behind its simple plot, Kiplings story inspires serious philosophical and existential questions related to the duality between science and the spiritual. Symbolically speaking, Findlaysons project stands for an atheist mans belief in materialistic reality and scientific progress in the face of a traditional and spiritual India that resists all acts of desecration. Findlayson himself is aware that his triumph over Indian gods is only temporary as the bridge will one day or another disappear and all men will be ultimately vanquished by death without solving the question of eternity.
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Bridge Builders (1893) by the British writer Rudyard Kipling is an Indian story about the building of the Kashi Bridge. The story mainly displays Kiplings mastery of the technical details and knowledge related to bridge building. His biographers agree that the author acquired this knowledge through interacting with British civil engineers who were assigned by the Crown to build numerous bridges in India as part of the industrial movement in British India. The building of the Kashi is under the supervision of Engineer Findlayson. At a certain moment, Findlayson is lured into opium consumption and apparently starts to hallucinate. He dreams that the bridge is threatened to be destroyed by Indian gods who consider such a project as a desecration of the natural world. They decide to flood the city and the question that keeps on haunting Findlaysons mind is whether his bridge would survive the natural catastrophe or not. Fortunately for him, the bridge eventually resists the flood. Behind its simple plot, Kiplings story inspires serious philosophical and existential questions related to the duality between science and the spiritual. Symbolically speaking, Findlaysons project stands for an atheist mans belief in materialistic reality and scientific progress in the face of a traditional and spiritual India that resists all acts of desecration. Findlayson himself is aware that his triumph over Indian gods is only temporary as the bridge will one day or another disappear and all men will be ultimately vanquished by death without solving the question of eternity.

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