Word: varma
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...master grows almost lyrical. "We are making great things," he says. "Things with hand labor, without machines. Architecture abounds [in India]-it flows as the music flows in Bach." Most of India's architects are just as enthusiastic. Wrote the Punjab's Chief Engineer Parameshari Lal Varma, in a recent letter to Le Corbusier: "What you are giving to India I pray may become a source of new inspiration in our architecture and city planning...
...would be impractical for the Emperor of India to intervene in this most delicate Hindu matter but last week His Highness Sir Rama Varma, Maharaja of Travancore celebrated his 24th birthday by issuing a proclamation hailed as the most important Hindu reform in almost a millennium...