Somnath Temple a lesson in Resilience

Passing through dusty kachi kutchy sadaks , huge hills of sand in the little Rann of Kutch , Walls of WC's and Commodes in Morbi , and the shipbreaking yards of Alang among other places , we finally reached Veravel . This small town is Home to the famous Somnath temple .Somnath temple , i remembered from my history books was the one Plundered and destroyed by mohammed Gazni 18 times . Each time he destroyed and looted it , it was rebuilt . The current temple was made post Independence .As I saw the temple with the arabian sea at its background , queerly the feelings in me were not devotional at all . It was a feeling of strength , a feeling of Resilience . SomnathJi's Huge Linga represents the strength of the spirit of India .... refusing to die , refusing to accept defeat and continuing to thrive against all odds . The original Linga is kept underground in a temple nearby. From here we moved on to Veravel the centre of our reefer ( refridgerated container ) trade in Gujrat.I was quite surprised to see so many tamil and malyali hoardings and signs here. I was even more surprised to meet so many sophisticated new world Chinese Business man.There was something fishy .... and I soon found out that its not something but everything thats fishy in this little now fishing town. The fisher folk here had discovered that the fish that is used as manure ... yes manure .. in Gujat is a delicasy in China and other eastern countries . Soon there were chinese buyers doing quality checks and supply chain management to see that their pipeline is full of a never ending supply of Gujju fish .And soon companies like ours rushed in to cash in on the fishy dope. The fishermen do get caught when their greed leads them into Pak waters but they do have their contacts .... they r resilient too like the temple they swear by .. like the temple they built and rebuilt .. again and again ..