15% of Mumbai's new 130-acre Coastal Road seafront will have ticketed attractions. Why should a corporation profit from public space created with public money? indianexpress.com/article/ci…

Bonjour. ☕️ Boulangerie Picard, avenue des Ternes. c.1900. Paris 17e

View Over the Latin Quarter. Paris Mona Edulesco.

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"When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed." ~ William Butler Yeats

Sengaku-ji Temple, from Selected Views of the Tôkaidô Road, by Kawase Hasui, 1931

My family runs a homestay in the hills of Darjeeling and it goes without saying that we have to deal with all kinds of people. However, we have noticed some things that seem to be uniform behaviour for all Indians: a) They will dirty the room, and not spare even the pillows,

I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.

The Irish playright George Bernard Shaw, photographed 119 years ago, at the age of 51. I have cleaned and enhanced this very striking Autochrome portrait by Alvin Langdon Coburn, taken in colour in 1907 via the Lumiere brother's newly-patented colour glass-plate process.

"The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth." ~ George Eliot Two Swallows in Flight 🎨 James Lynch

While Europe was under ice, someone in Ratnagiri carved a 14-metre map of India. It's an elephant. Head west to the Konkan, tail east. Inside it: a tiger in the east, a langur in the north, a boar in Madhya Pradesh, a pangolin in the south. Each animal where it actually lives. Seven mountains. The Mahabharata also names seven. It was carved 10,000 years before the Mahabharata. Now the part that should end the argument. The map's width-to-height ratio is 1.167. Modern India is 1.04. Doesn't match. Because they weren't mapping modern India. Reverse-solve 1.167 against the coastline of 12,000 BCE — when the sea was 120m lower and the Sunda Shelf was dry land — and the eastern edge lands at ~100.9°E. The eastern shore of the Malay Peninsula. The exact limit of the world you could walk to from India at the time. A decorative outline doesn't do that. A map does. The oldest known map is supposed to be Çatalhöyük, ~6,200 BCE. This predates it by 6,000 years. It's on an open plateau. People play cricket near these carvings. The monsoon is erasing it. Full paper, free, permanent: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20516459 #Ratnagiri #Archaeology #History

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"The tragic loss of three Indian sailors is a collateral damage but they themselves were responsible for it." — Rishi bagree, Influencer

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This city floods with every rain. Show me a good infra city in India. Because all your tier 1 are fucked up.

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The British colony of Zanzibar off the east coast of Africa. A tired nanny poses next to her ward named Farrukh Bulsara. A quarter of a century later, the boy would take the pseudonym Freddie Mercury, 1947.

Paused to look at a 1 Rupee public phone that has lost its colour. In Parel. Current function: providing nostalgia.