2025

Still-time at Amaravati

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my thanks to,
Maria Sheherazade Giudici
Rory Sherlock

Still-time at Amaravati

[excerpt]

Amaravati is 80 kilometres inland from the eastern coast of India, about six hours north of Chennai by train. Scattered across a formerly productive agricultural landscape are vast pits containing concrete foundations and dense fields of rebar submerged in water. What remains of  a new state capital imagined for 3.2 million people was a city interrupted only years after its inception.

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