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Modernity at Home This erudite piece by Rosinka Chaudhuri is a personal favourite of mine: I feel it needs to be on the CAL website because it deals with many of the themes and issues close to [...]

There’s no less embarrassing way to put this. I first noticed Calcutta’s architectural beauty – even though I’d mostly grown up there – on a maiden trip to Paris at [...]

Exemplary Houses of Calcutta: A Response to the Bengal Renaissance A Preliminary Photo-Documentation within areas suggested by Amit Chaudhuri: 20th August 2017 Rabindra J Vasavada, Architect [...]

1. When speaking of heritage Calcutta buildings, people generally think of ‘bonedi’ mansions and buildings made by the British during the Raj. Yet a substantial portion of what is [...]

This dilapidated building needed to be photographed because in a month’s time it will be brought down to give rise to a high rise apartment (so common in Kolkata now)… I just want to [...]

On Dover Lane In the heart of South Calcutta’s bustling culture and shopping district, Gariahat, lies quieter Dover Lane. At one end it leads into a leafy quadrangular enclave of residences built [...]

There are many ways of reviving a city through its buildings. The most important among these is to actually use these remarkable buildings, either to live in or for some other function. As Alanna [...]