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Last week, the newly elected Chief Minister, C. Joseph Vijay, went walkabout at Fort St. George. Which is a good thing. He must be the first Chief Minister in living memory who went and saw some of the monuments in the precinct. The itinerary was predictable – the Church of St. Mary’s and the Fort…
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The demolition of the 17th-century Mubarak Manzil, a Mughal heritage site, by an Agra-based builder, has sparked outrage among many, including famed India-based Scottish historian William Dalrymple. The razing of Mubarak Manzil in Agra, in collusion with police and administrative officials, speaks volumes about the sad state of ancient monuments and archaeological sites in our…
The Badrinath temple is one of the unprotected monuments. New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has underlined that a large number of historical monuments are “not under any sort of protection” and asked about the procedure through which requests for restoration of “unprotected monuments” is made to the ASI. It also asked how many such requests…
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