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June 28, 2009

‘Heritage’ is relative

Filed under: History, syndication-floss — Sridhar Dhanapalan @ 1:24 pm

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I live in a country where even buildings less than 100 years old can be protected as ‘heritage’. Yet in India they can demolish a 700-year-old mosque without even batting an eyelid!

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