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Amitav Ghoshbeer
Remembering Gandhi
Today being Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary I find myself recalling a commemorative retreat that was organized in 1996 (and for several years afterwards) by Vijaya Nagarajan, who now…
‘Coolitude’ and Khal Torabully
I came across Khal Torabully's work while I was writing Sea of Poppies. He is a prominent literary figure in Mauritius and along with Marina Carter, who is…
Charles Correa’s greatest?
The 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…