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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:01:38 +0530
| now how could we have missed this!!!
| anyone know anything about the eviction of
| directors at SPA?
Heaps of History
Monday, Jul. 11, 2005
Nalini Thakur marches through the front door of a town house in New
Delhi, crosses a courtyard where a woman is snoring on a rope bed, and
arrives at a brick tomb that has survived for 450 years. Hidden away in
this unlikely domestic setting, it's a splendid archeological
curiosity—one of the first tombs to fuse Persian and Mughal styles in a
way that prefigured the design of the Taj Mahal a century later. But as
Thakur steps inside, she is assaulted by a stench that reveals the
mausoleum's current function: it has become a toilet. "Heritage in India
is endless," says Thakur, head of New Delhi's School of Planning and
Architecture and widely regarded as India's leading conservationist
....
cont'd...
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501050718-1081432,00.html