A Point of View - The Brightening of History
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"Calcutta was born old", writes Amit Chaudhuri.
But restoration work of old buildings in the city, he says, "is now often based on the assumption that an old building...must have once looked new, or should have".
He says restoration in Calcutta - and in many other cities around the world - must stop fetishizing the new.
Published on Friday, 11th May 2018.
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