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...conservationist when she moved from Madras?"not a beautiful city"?to New Delhi in the 1970s to study architecture. Awed by the 2,000 Mughal, Hindu and British buildings in the capital, she considered becoming a tour guide until her professor persuaded her to write a thesis on Nizamuddin, the city's Muslim quarter. She soon realized she was the first to systematically chronicle the area and was effectively "rediscovering a city." After stumbling upon a whole palace complex in the Mehrauli district of South Delhi that was being demolished, Thakur had a eureka moment. "I thought, 'This...
...Walking through Nizamuddin's back alleys, past tombs that have been converted into shops or houses, Thakur acknowledges that conservation is inevitably an afterthought in a developing country. India is "so crowded with people and monuments," she says, that it's hard to justify evicting families so that the historic buildings where they live can be properly preserved. And, she adds, preservation is often complicated by politics. The most socially divisive issue of the past two decades, for example, was a dispute over Ayodhya in northern India, where in 1992 Hindu mobs tore down a 16th century Mughal mosque they...
...open countryside, but atop roundabouts or tucked in beside the high-rises and flyovers of South Delhi. They obscure the fairways of golf courses, provide a destination for joggers in the Lodi Garden, and serve as urinals or night shelters for landless Biharis and Afghan refugees in the Nizamuddin slum...
...violence erupted early last month when 32-year-old Sunni police trainee constable Akbar Niazi wired himself with explosives and blew up the Haideri mosque, killing himself and more than 24 Shi'ites. Next to die was radical Sunni Muslim cleric Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, 51, who was gunned down on May 30 while driving to his Binori Town mosque and seminary. The following day, a suicide bomber set off a blast that shattered the dome of the Shi'ite Ali Reza mosque, killing...
...general strike brought Karachi to a standstill. It was called by the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, a six-party religious alliance, to protest sectarian violence. Days earlier, a suicide bombing at a Shi'ite mosque in the city killed 23, shortly after the assassination of prominent Sunni cleric Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai. Less Than Total Recall VENEZUELA President Hugo Chávez declared himself ready to face a recall vote after the National Electoral Council confirmed that opponents had gathered more than the 2.4 million signatures required for the ballot. But officials have yet to agree on a date: should...