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Nalini Thakur marches through the front door of a town house in New Delhi, crosses a courtyard where a woman is snoring on a rope bed, and arrives at a brick tomb that has survived for 450 years. Hidden away in this unlikely domestic setting, it's a splendid archeological curiosity?one of the first tombs to fuse Persian and Mughal styles in a way that prefigured the design of the Taj Mahal a century later. But as Thakur steps inside, she is assaulted by a stench that reveals the mausoleum's current function: it has become a toilet. "Heritage...
...Every year, more ruins vanish, victims of unscrupulous property developers or unthinking bureaucrats. Sometimes no other great city seems less loved or cared for. Occasionally there is an outcry as the tomb of the Mughal poet Zauq is discovered to have disappeared under a municipal urinal or the haveli courtyard house of his great rival Ghalib is revealed to have been turned into a coal store; but most of the losses go unrecorded. I find it heartbreaking: every time I revisit one of my favorite monuments, it has either been overrun by a slum, unsympathetically restored by the Archaeological Survey...
...classics. I went to Copley Square and discovered the beautiful main branch of the Boston Public Library. I entered on the side facing Copley Square, which is the impressive, older entrance, and much more aesthetically pleasing than the new entrance. The Boston Public Library features an outdoor courtyard within the library complex, as well as famous artwork on public display, including the John Singer Sergent murals, as well as artwork by Picasso, Rembrandt, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Winslow Homer...
...legend has already embraced Paul and Steve’s unasked-for encore after Eliot won the Straus cup; after the festive ceremony and luncheon, they seized the microphones and sat back in lawn chairs. Their impromptu stand-up routine and reflections on IM glory echoed through the courtyard long after most residents were back to cramming for finals...
...HUPD reported to Eliot House after receiving a report of “loud people in the courtyard.” After evaluating the scene, officers sent the noisemakers on their...