Trip to the past
My visit to the ASI Children’s Museum for Heritage in Siri Fort Complex taught me a lot about saving monuments. The ASI Museum is full of information for children as well as elders. In the first hall, there are old and new pictures of historical monuments. They showed how in earlier times, the monuments were in a better condition than now. The Chhatta Bazar was not a shopping place, but now it has turned nito one. As India gets more developed, these monuments are slowly decaying. But the citizens of this country are not developing their minds — when they go to these beautiful monuments, they write their names, stick posters and also spit all over the place.

People organise picnics at these spots and scatter garbage everywhere. These monuments are great tourist spots and they help us get acquainted with our past. But if this disregard continues, the next generation will only be reading about them in history books, but never see them for real. We should promise ourselves and to our nation that we will save our monuments.

We should organise groups and ask our elders to help us protest and ask the government to punish people who destroy these monuments. Also, when we see someone defacing these monuments, we can prevent him.

We have to remember that if there is a will there is a way. This is something we are doing for the betterment of our country and proving our true love for our country.
—HARI SHANKAR AGGARWAL
CLASS VII-C

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