How India Can Better Preserve Its Cultural Heritage: An interview with Ratish Nanda | The Diplomat

An interview with Ratish Nanda, a prominent conservation architect in India.An interview with Ratish Nanda, a prominent conservation architect in India.

New York City, with a history of just about 300 years, has more than 29,000 protected heritage buildings. India, on the other hand, has designated only about 15,000 structures under that category, despite being over 2,700 times bigger in size and its history dating back to more than 2,000 BC. What’s worse, dozens of these structures are not even traceable today due to urbanization and neglect. This can, and must, change, says Ratish Nanda, a conservation architect whose organization has saved several monuments in the country from disappearing.

There are at least three keys to conservation, Nanda, who heads the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a Switzerland-based non-profit group, told The Diplomat in an interview in his office within the complex of one of Delhi’s most celebrated monuments, Humayun’s Tomb, a UNESCO World Heritage Site whose conservation his organization completed in 2013.

More at the source: By Vishal Arora, September 28, 2016, The Diplomat

 

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