3. Kalpur Darwaja
The 15th century Gate was the site assigned to me for the survey of Ahmedabad’s Old Wall during the field trip. The place, in the center of the old city, was a jumble of busy streets and small shops. The survey was carried out by me and two other students (Jack Parmar and Kevin Lee), but all the drawings presented in the following pages are done by me. As in the Rani No Hajiro, and as we saw, in many other places in Ahmedabad, the sacred is not entirely distinguishable from the profane. In an extremely fascinating way there are places of worship or small sepulchres, like spaces of silence in the midst of deafening everyday life. Right next to the shops and the gate there was in fact, enclosed in a semi-hidden ravine, what we have named the “Tomb house”.
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