“…Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another
people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day
long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a
nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and
crushed…”
Deuteronomy 28:32-33
Such were the terrible curses that would befall the Jews
if they ever strayed from the path of the Almighty. In reality, first the
Assyrians, then the Babylonians and finally the Romans forced the Jews from
their lands, and they wandered the earth, for many years a stateless people.
With their pragmatic and business oriented approach to life, they prospered
wherever they went, but I wonder how many of the Jews who came to India from
Aleppo in Syria, Isfahan in Iran and of course, Baghdad in Iraq, ever imagined
that their mortal remains would be interred in a place called Narkeldanga.
