Razing awareness

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Many items of vernacular architecture were destroyed in the Karnataka region of southern India in the 1970s, when the region attracted migrant workers as a result of the Arabian Gulf oil boom, according to retired banker Vijaynath Shenoy. He reacted by buying up all the demolished buildings he could find, and was able to obtain interesting items extremely cheaply in lumber yards and scrap dealers' shops. He placed all these items in a specially designed bungalow, which is now controlled by a trust which he formed with Norwegian government aid.

Interview, India, Architecture, Museums, Art museums, Karnataka, India, Shenoy, Vijaynath

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Death's angel: a hospice director comforts his patients' last days with lies

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Li Wei operates Beijing's only hospice, where he routinely lies to the dying to make their last days happier. Now 46, he worked as a doctor in Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution, treating patients with prevarication when he had no medicines. He founded the Song Tang Hospice with his own money, gained from selling ancestral estates, and runs it with the last of the proceeds. Most of the hospice residents are elderly, and their average stay is 18 days, and in that time he tries to keep their dreams alive.

Social aspects, China, Appreciation, Hospice care, Li Wei

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