Rory Stewart on the treasures of Kabul
It is difficult not to write about Kabul Museum as a lament. And yet it is not a depressing place
By Rory Stewart
From the archive
Two vast and mostly trunkless legs of stone stand in the hall; near them sits a shattered Bodhisattva, whose hunched shoulders and sorrowful gaze are the work of an Afghan sculptor from 1,700 years ago. In 2001, the Taliban broke it into a hundred pieces. And the Bodhisattva seems to be mourning all the cracks and plaster joints of its reconstruction.
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