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In the book the author have tried to trace the development and directions that our architecture has taken in the last fifty years. A short summary of the earlier and colonial period is also included. Only those details that serve to make the subject more intelligible have been added. It is designed to examine the trends of the last fifty years against the backdrop of the past, and to identify the challenges of the present and the future.
In the book, Glass Paintings : An Ephemeral Art in India, the author has recorded the hitherto unpublished glass paintings found in the collection of the Bharat Itihas Samshodhak Mandal of Pune. These paintings represent a novel technique; these are done in oil rather than in water as was the earlier practice. The choice of the themes is also a departure from the traditional ones. They consist mainly of portraits representing an exotic fashion which also attempts ...