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Typically, a chawl is a set of rooms strung along a corridor. Each of these rooms are inhabited by different households. Chawls can be single- or multi-storied—generally they have a ground floor plus two or three above. While one end of the corridor has a staircase, the other end…
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Sapera basti, Gharoli village, Mayur Vihar Phase III
On a November afternoon, Bahadur Nath entertained his guest wearily but patiently. Listening intently to my many queries, he expertly shifted between presenting the problems of being a sapera and strongly criticizing the lack of political…
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While there is much being planned in India in the field of urban development and urban regeneration with schemes such as HRIDAY and Smart Cities mission, there is little talk about the development of smaller towns such as Paithan. This article aims to highlight the potential of integrated…
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Voiceover Text
My cousin writes from Hyderapot
My only chance to snatch,
And says the climate is so hot,
She says that I shall much delight
To taste their Indian treats,
But what she likes may turn me quite,
Their strange outlandish meats. -
If I can eat rupees, who knows?
Or dine, the…
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Umesh Nagarkar talks about the role of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai as a funding agency and a strong backbone in the restoration projects of pyaavs, or drinking water fountains in Mumbai. He also speaks of the need for greater public awareness in preserving these antiquities…
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Conservation architect Rahul Chemburkar talks about understanding the contexts of the pyaavs (drinking water fountains) of Mumbai. He focuses on the architectural variety that one finds in pyaavs and the elaborate restoration process that every structure needs to undergo. He puts…
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Historian and author of the book Water Heritage of Mumbai (2011), Dr. Varsha Shirgaonkar speaks on pyaav structures as history markers, while elaborating on the process of her pioneering work that brought the pyaavs of Mumbai into the limelight. It was her team that re-discovered these gems…
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