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“When an architect builds a glass tower in the middle of the Arabian desert, he justifies his design with a 100 different reasons-except possibly the real one, viz., that he is trying to (unconsciously)  recreate for his clients, the mythic ...Read More

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LikeThatOnly's signage befuddles me to start with. It is like..a jaunty scooter developed butterfly wings that turned into a Japanese fan. But then who said dreams should make sense and that is what this young, spirited restaurant in Bangalore's Whitefield is. ...Read More

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It is Saturday night. Over roasted pumpkin soup, lawn cooled breeze and tinkling water that gleams in a long horizontal ribbon next to my feet, I feel a bit displaced. This is Bangalore, right? Just a few hours ago, I ...Read More

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Bridges are spaces. Bridges are places, where people meet other people, enjoy their surroundings, and experience being part of a community. Though a mode of transit, bridges can be magnets for public activity and fun. Bridges not only connect land ...Read More

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This morning I was driving my usual route to work, and noticed vast emptiness. No, not within! But in the Sunnyvale (California) cityscape. Between last night's drive back home and this morning's commute to work, the sight of  a fan ...Read More

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Take a small detour from the famous Spice Route of old into a relatively undiscovered part of rural Rajasthan and one of the world’s only open-air art galleries. Painted houses fade like painted ladies of old. Their stately presence, battered ...Read More

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A couple of years after I moved to Mumbai, a Bangalore friend of mine asked me if I missed living in Bangalore. I told him I did. He waited for me to add something to that response. After a while, ...Read More

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When you arrive at Chandra and Anal Jain's home, you walk into a radiant energy field. The couple belong to a certain lost age of refinement, unconditional warmth and hospitality that translates into tall glasses of lemonades, cheese crackers with ...Read More

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A drive to Hasserghatta in Bangalore shifts perspectives slowly but surely about the kind of city we live in. Yes, we have to first pass through Bangalore's sooty lungs but then arrive  the colonies of banyans, the silver oak avenues, the gentle green hamlets and simple rusticity. Though ...Read More

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" Do not once think that you are here as a result of chance or coincidence," the folks at Our Native Village, an ecologically sensitive and restorative resort, will have you believe. So if you have been longing to fill a ...Read More

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One story that I read after an earthquake crippled Gujarat in 2001, has remained with me. It was about how a prosperous resident of a multi-storeyed apartment block in a city had violated construction rules and built a pool for ...Read More

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I am an architect and a Bharatnatyam dancer and am fascinated with the relationship between the arts and architecture. And I have been on a fabulous journey to explore the connection between a static and a performing art since both complete me. The origin of this classical Indian dance form ...Read More