Imagining the wiki city

शहर को जाने के काई द्वार है-.. गेट. जिन सीमेंट और ईंट के पुराने शहरों में यह देखा है, मन रुक कर हर ऊँचे द्वार के रूप को देख कर आँखों की नाँव पर चढ़ बैठता है, निहारने के लिए... वो फैली हुई मछलियाँ जिनके लहराते आकार पर मछली गेट को अपना नाम मिला. वो ऊँचे शेर और उनके बुर्क़े से बालों की टोप, वो हाथी गेट के गज.. सो हमारे फाल्के की जीवनी के यून द्वार हों, शिल्पकारी से सजे.. एक उसके बचपन को जाता, उड़ान खटोले की यात्रा का रास्ता हो, तो एक, बीस बूढ़ी रानियों के वृतांत का रास्ता..एक गेट पर बस बीसवीं शताब्दी की टेक्नालाजी के सपने काढ़े हों, तो..

yes, Italo, older cities are fascinating, and you know you will be wonderstruck by the sight of the gateways themselves. The thin, fine differentiaion, of the gate of lions from the gate of the fish, augur different narrative trajectories. Here, past the white plastered gates with the lions in their bonnets, sits the lane of small jewellery makers, handcrafters of silver pins and anklet chains. Before them and larger than their entire lane, lies a large dry drain with high dusty banks. Tomorrow evening, you might want to walk out of another gate, so you can walk in again, through the gateway of elephants, the portal of entry promising narrative threads. so of course elephants would not lead to elephants themselves ( sorry to over explain, but then, no mail is public nowadays), but elephant echoes, presences, roads discovered in parsing that word. I would want the same for this virtual city we are planning. Some homes here were made brick by brick- and then we let ourselves imagine the roads, Thick thorny shrubs grew and held onto dusty embankments. We think we might try to make the gates now, signify what pathways we are beginning to see, and invite you to walk in that a way. your sincerely, proprietors distributors and sometimes sole viewers phal kwiki