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Ring the Bells that Still Can Ring

A Bell is Not a Bell Until You Ring It

The entrance of Tilinga temple (‘Tilinga’ means ‘bell’ in Assamese) hoarding many bells, Assam, India [Image: Sanghita Pal]

Some jingle, tinkle, chime, and ring while the others clang, knell, toll, and more.

Yes, you just guessed it right.

I am talking about bells.

In order of its size, the sonorous bell makes sound.

Bells on display at a local shop just outside Tilinga temple, Assam, India [Image: Sanghita Pal]

Small bells tinkle. Sleigh bells tinkle and jingle. Wedding bells ring and chime. Alarm bells clang. Funeral bells toll and knell.

Do what you know best; if you’re a runner, run, if you’re a bell, ring- Ignas Bernstein

You would see thousands of bell hung, arranged in 3 columns overhead from the start of the temple premises, while you climb up 503 steps to Dunagiri Mata temple (an incarnate of Maa Durga) at Malla Surana, Kumaon Himalayas, Uttarakhand, India [Image: Sanghita Pal]

Bells have become the part and parcel of various cultures and faiths in the world.

While the first probable archaeological evidence of bells dates to 3rd millennium BC in China, it was not until 1000 BC that the first bells appeared in West Asia.