The world’s tallest building in Dubai, Burj Dubai, also called Burj Khalifa, which was inaugurated on Monday, has an innate symbolism about it. The sheer architectural innovation and engineering marvel apart, Burj Dubai, 828-metre high and with 160 floors, epitomizes human grit and quest for excellence beyond what seems to be mandated for man to achieve in this mortal and mysterious world. As the Burj tower reaches out to the sky, human imagination also gets amplified. What in the long run? A thousand Burj Dubais, still higher, across the world connected to each other at such heights as would exist only in fiction today, with towns and cities up there, with none requiring to ever come down to the earth — a space world belonging to an entirely different generation of evolved intelligence? Do not say it is impossible. A hundred years ago, did, or could, anybody visualize the kind of revolution that computers would bring about? Would anyone of that era think of space territorialization? Or of missions to the Mars and beyond? The fact of the wondrous realm of science and technology is that there is absolutely no room for impossibilities. Is it not that what was believed to be God’s exclusive domain at one point of time has today turned out to be man’s very own? Burj Dubai, therefore, is a celebration of the indomitable human spirit that knows no limit, of human intelligence that is extraordinary. THE SENTINEL
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