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Conservationist Rakhaldas Sengupta devoted nearly nine years of his life to restoring the two gigantic, rock-hewn Buddhas at Bamiyan in Afghanistan. As director of conservation with the Archaeological Survey of India, he led an Indian effort in the 1970s to conserve the Buddhas, the world's tallest, standing 53 meters and 35 meters high. Sengupta spoke to TIME South Asia contributor Maseeh Rahman following last week's destruction order issued by Taliban Supreme Leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar. Edited excerpts...
...SenGupta remembers their pre-frosh encounter slightly differently...
...would sit together every day in the second row. We studied together," SenGupta says. "During reading period I got free movie passes. We went to see Sense and Sensibility, which is something about friends becoming more then friends...
...strengthened my interest that he got along well with my mom," SenGupta says. "They would talk on the phone. She has a final say about everything...
...according to SenGupta, it was actually Bhattacharya who ensured that everyone in Eliot was talking about the engagement...