Salim Reshamwala

It is a belief that the bridge will reciprocate our faith and lead us to our destinations.

There might also be a psychological side to making an offering to the bridge so that you don't lose focus and balance on the bridge.

You need to be in a state of meditation to cross the bridge.

A state of meditation?

That's such a specific mindset.

It's borderline spiritual.

And crossing these bridges creates connection.

People aren't the only things that cross.

With them comes information, ideas, traditions, new ways of thinking and doing.

People do business on the other side of that bridge.

Children can now go to school to learn on the other side of that bridge.

I mean, people will fall in love and maybe have babies with folks they meet on the other side of the bridge.

With the creation of a bridge in a place with so much isolation, all concepts of identity and geography, even the limits of what's possible, they suddenly shift.

These bridges connected societies in every sense of the word.

Economically, socially, connecting people of different castes and ethnicities, different occupational groups, different languages and cultures.

We need bridges not only to facilitate our physical needs and services for better survival, but also to join these different communities.

For facilitating that process of greater mobility of all citizens and greater interaction and exchanges, we need bridges.

But what about places that can't build a strong bridge?

In many places where people can't build proper bridges, they have to depend on basic wire crossings or tuins.

Such harsh realities still exist in remote places of the country where kids are still forced to cross rivers through these dangerous tuins to go to school.