Lost and Found

For a while now I had been thinking of publishing a blog separate from 'nayi-taazi' to talk about topics specific to historic preservation, architecture and construction--so here it is! As an architect and preservationist, these issues do not just occupy a good 8 hours of my life each day, but continuously expose me to interesting tid-bits of history and culture, allow me the opportunity to travel to some well-known and some forgotten locales and do fun stuff like peeking inside 600-yr old basements infested with bats in Jaisalmer, and climb up the bell tower of Trinity Church in Boston. And yet, there are days when I am dismayed by the lack of sufficient time and research that goes into making decisions, and humbled by the fact that sometimes there no definitive answers. Being an architect, I do have predilection towards built heritage, but as rightly evidenced by recent scholarship, heritage manifests itself in so much more--clothing, language, techniques, cuisine and so on. All of these are in a constant cycle of being discarded, forgotten, found and/or re-invented. This blog is my attempt to record my encounters with them.