As the deep cover of ash was removed, a particularly unique urban structure was revealed to archaeologists and to posterity. A site discovered in the southern region of the excavations in an area called Greater Kailash reveals a culture that defies all the accepted precepts of archaeology. Layer upon layer, strata upon strata of awkward buildings and apparently useless items are now being catalogued to provide us a close-up of the domestic lives of the inhabitants.
Gautam Bhatia, in Whitewash! New Delhi Excavated
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- "The Stepped Well." In Looking through Walls: Architecture in the age of McDonalds. New Delhi, India, 2001.
- Looking through Walls: Architecture in the age of McDonalds. New Delhi, India, 2001.