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HERITAGE PRESERVED Supreme sense of aesthetics Photo: Murali Kumar K.
The story of the Karnataka High Court building (The Battle for Attara Kacheri, MetroPlus, April 18, 2006) was very interesting. One ought to be indebted to M. Bhaktavatsala and his concerned friends for their campaign to save the building. Thanks solely to their efforts culminating in the successful appeal to the Supreme Court, the grand old structure still exists today.
It is incredible that the Urban Arts Commission had also concurred with the then government's demolition order on the condition that the new building be a replica of the demolished building.
Had the suggestion been implemented, it would have been akin to retaining photocopies of precious old documents and burning the originals. And that, certainly, is no way to preserve history or heritage.
D.N. Raghavendra Rao
Banashankari
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