Religion Today 2021 Catalogo

di quei luoghi, sempre sottomessi ai
pashtun, ai tagiki, ai talebani. Per gente
come quella, abituata a combattere
per la propria sopravvivenza da secoli,
la distruzione dei Budda rappresenta
soltanto un episodio di una millenaria
guerra intestina. Con la semplicità
che gli è naturale Caridi racconta di
viaggi in orari antelucani, “per poter
contare sul sonno di eventuali briganti
in agguato” e che lo conducono verso i
laghi Band-e Amir e in questo percorso
il lettore concorda con l’interrogativo
che il viaggiatore si pone: perché i mezzi
di comunicazione descrivono solo
l’aspetto più drammatico e violento
dell’Afghanistan?
After what looks like a visit to Kabul, and which
looks like a visit to any city in the Middle East,
Caridi’s journey heads north. Accompanied
by his host Mouquin, the Kalashnikov of the
armed escort Shirin and the driver, he travels
along the Central Road, which connects
Kabul to Herat. Those who read it will meet
Bayman’s Buddhas, converse with the Hazara,
the inhabitants of those places, always subject
to the Pashtuns, the Tajiks, the Taliban. For
people like that, who have been used to
fighting for their own survival for centuries, the
destruction of the Buddhas is only one episode
in a millennial internal war. With the simplicity
that is natural for him, Caridi speaks of travels
in pre-Lucan times, “to be able to count on
the sleep of any brigands lurking” and which
lead him to the Band-e Amir lakes and in this
journey the reader agrees with the question
that the traveler asks: why does the media only
describe the most dramatic and violent aspect
of Afghanistan?
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