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Ozayr Saloojee
@osaloojee
PhD (UCL); Faculty in Arch. at Carleton U;(Ottawa); S-Africa, Turkey, cultural landscapes, contested terrains, water, cities, equity + spatial politics
Mar 29, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1/x Just finished William Dalrymple's brilliant book - The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India company. "On the evening of my visit, I hired a small dinghy to row me upstream. It was an hour before sunset, that beautiful moment north Indians call godhulibela - 2/x cow-dust time - and the Yamuna glittered in the evening light as brightly as a scattering of Mughal gems. Egrets picked their way along the banks, past pilgrims taking a dip near the auspicious point of confluence, where the Yamuna meets the Ganga. Ranks of little boys with-