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Delhi Heritage: Top 10 Baolis by Vikramjit Singh Rooprai

Architecture, Book Review, Environment, Heritage, Language, New Delhi /

Published by Niyogi Books Pvt Ltd. Picture Credits: Srilagna Majumdar “We are creating newer and newer methods to exhaust our resources…and one of these resources is water…the proposal to use step-wells as aquifers and to divert rainwater run-off into them might be one way of, at least, partially reversing the unending cycle of continuous exploitation of […]

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A Book Review of Kavita Kane’s Lanka’s Princess: Weaving up the Character of Surphanakha

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“Meenakshi….Her eyes are as golden and graceful as a fish’s. That would be a lovely name for her…” {Rishi Vishwaras on occasion of his daughter’s birth, Lanka’s Princess, Kavita Kane} Unfortunately, India always has adopted a hypocritical policy regarding its treatment of women who are worshipped in the temples and yet step-downed upon elsewhere. The

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