Charles Correa’s greatest?
Amitav GhoshThe morning began with my son sending me this (note #29) and after that I still had the pleasure of writing about Charles Correa to look forward to...…
Shouts and whispers
I was delighted to read Saurabh's comments of Sept 27 and this post is a continuation of that conversation. Charles and Monika Correa are dear friends and…
Old and New in São Paulo, Brazil
Oscar Niemeyer's Auditório Ibirapuera (inaugurated 2005), in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo Modernism and cyber-medievalism Entrance, Auditório Ibirapuera (the portal has been…
Question from a reader
'I shall be obliged if you kindly let me know the meaning and origin of the word "BANKSHALL"'. Here is the entry for 'bankshall' in the Ibis Chrestomathy which can…
letter from Lemuria
" file of the U.S. State Department's Office of the Geographer ... contains the correspondence over two decades between the U.S. Government and various individuals regarding a group…
Echoes of Goa: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
The first Portuguese settlements in Bahia, Brazil, were founded at about the same time as those in Goa. Salvador was Brazil's first capital and these pictures were all…
Letter from Malaysia
My correspondence with Fernando Rosa began some months ago: he is a Brazilian doing research in Malaysia. This is how he describes his work: ‘I am doing research…
The mysterious death of India’s coastal and inland shipping
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries opium was transported from Ghazipur to Calcutta by large and heavily fortified fleets of vessels (the progress of one such…
Letter from Qatar
Dear Amitav, I have just returned from a trip to Beirut and Malta. While in Beirut I took a truly wonderful walking tour led by an AUB grad that I…