Travel is an experience! After sometime you realize that your final identity is that small book which is the most precious paper or book when you are out of country or anywhere in the world!
So Nehemiah 2:7–9, dating from approximately 450 BC, states that Nehemiah, an official serving King Artaxerxes I of Persia, asked permission to travel to Judea; the king granted leave and gave him a letter “to the governors beyond the river” requesting safe passage for him as he traveled through their lands.
That letter is the first official such paper given by anyone to anybody!
That letter then and the book now is a PASSPORT!
Arthashastra (c. 3rd century BCE) make mentions of passes issued at the rate of one masha per pass to enter and exit the country. In one of the Chapters of the Second Book of Arthashastra concerns with the duties of the Mudrādhyakṣa (which roughly translates into ‘Superintendent of Seals’) who must issue sealed passes before a person could enter or leave the countryside!
Yes! That is literally the passport official!
The term “passport” is from a medieval document that was required in order to pass through the gate (or “porte”) of a city wall!
Luckily once you are in your country you do not need any passport ( at least for now!) to go from one place to another! That feeling itself where you cross one place border to another place and no one asks or cares about your PASSPORT is a great feeling!
After those many months of driving an automatic on the wide streets of Kuwait it was fun and a good change to drive a manual one on the highways in Bharat!
Could still make some time for a blog and sketch! That was a twist right!? Of course not as amazing as a twist in the M Night Shyamalan movie though!
Do make sure your documents are safe before you sleep!
SHubh Ratri!
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