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Like a great many Indians, Mahesh Patel was at home last Friday morning at 8:45 watching the televised Republic Day parade of India's armed forces. Suddenly, the TV set blacked out and his living room in Ahmedabad, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, began to shake like a storm-tossed raft. Toward the end of the 45-second quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey says hit 7.9 on the Richter scale, Patel heard a violent snapping sound. He ran out just as a neighboring four-story house collapsed in a roiling cloud of dust. As their home...
...after the earthquake jolted the subcontinent?it was felt as far away as Nepal and Bangladesh?the cries of the trapped victims began to grow faint throughout western India. In Ahmedabad, distraught parents flocked to a school which imploded, trapping 39 children and several teachers inside. Rescue workers said that during the first wave of tremors, the children were herded into a stairwell. Then the walls came tumbling down. "My only son is in there," wailed one woman. "I know he's still alive." But her hope dimmed every time firemen and volunteers extracted another tiny corpse from the site...
...constant threats and arrogant utterances directed at Iraq by the U.S. government. No one can be convinced of America's motives, especially since the entire world knows what the American-sponsored U.N. sanctions are doing to innocent civilians in Iraq. America is behaving like a bully. RAGHAVAN SHANKAR NARAYAN Ahmedabad, India...
...oven to sell chapati, or flatbread. One of the largest endeavors helped raise $1 million to start a dairy cooperative in Thailand. "Our goal is to reach women who have been bypassed by the traditional banking system and bring them into the economic mainstream," says Ela Bhatt of Ahmedabad, India, the current WWB chairman...
...first principles. Kahn's use of brickwork, often stretched in warm massive curves, goes back to medieval Siena. The immense cylinders, arcs and courts at Dacca were inspired by the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. At times, Kahn's forms possess a superb and primal practicality. The Ahmedabad dormitories, for instance, with their stairs set in a thick vertical silo flanked on either side by dark openings, are both a celebration of the sun and a defense against it. Structure is to architectural history as history is to instinct. The unique power of Kahn's work...