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There is a complete disregard for the heritage that we own in Kolkata: Swarup Dutta

In an exclusive interview with India Blooms correspondent Souvik Ghosh, Kolkata's well known multidisciplinary art and design practitioner Swarup Dutta, who is involved in restoring old non-heritage tagged houses in the crumbling metropolis hurtling towards mindless urbanisation, envisages ways to preserve the past much like how many European cities have done recognising the importance of the "old blocks".