Crimes' muted tones

Generations have come and archaeologists and historians have studied them all. Their analysis has been solely dependent on artefacts, art, architectural ruins, fossils, and writings that were left behind.

- Jitha Karthikeyan

From the gods worshipped to the battles that were fought, every single proof gathered was painstakingly deciphered by experts to provide us with an understanding of our past.

The lot of us who currently reside on this planet can, however, be assured that no scholar in the distant future would ever have to face a dearth of documentation, especially of the visual kind. For haven't we already bombarded every given space with our imageries? Armed with our laboratory, the smartphone, we go about manufacturing records of every moment that constitutes our lives. Filtering the relevant from the irrelevant is passé. The countless meals we have eaten/cooked, the dances we have danced despite having two left feet, the walk we planned one Sunday morning, the shoes we bought, the rage we felt, the neighbour's pet cat... There is nothing that is not photographed and sent out into the virtual world.