Purnima Tammireddy (Photo: Abdul Rasheed)

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The iconic Napier that started out in a shed-like structure around 1910 and then underwent gradual transformation.

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(Left) Prawn curry from the previous day being thickened to make the Goan kalchya kod and (right) peanuts being roasted in sand.

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A plush Karachi Bakery outlet at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi (Photo: Getty Images)

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Brutus, December 1998–June 2010  (photo by Siddharth Shukla, courtesy Avay Shukla)

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Chile’s Atacama Desert, a vast dump yard for used and unused clothes from around the world (Photos: Getty Images)

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Vasudhendra (photo courtesy: social media)

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Illustration by: Vidya Gopal

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Chandrakant Patel (extreme right), with team members on the construction site of the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1969. (Photos: 4th Dimension Architecture, Chandrakant Patel)

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A classic Mumbai chawl, Prabhadevi (Photos: Denise D’Silva, Sameer Zagade)

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Prince Dwarkanath Tagore's favourite well in Jharkhand restored