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The Palaces of Memory

Freedman has visited more than thirty of the most significant and beautiful Coffee Houses throughout India. Away from the stereotypes of poverty and exotica they have allowed him to enter an ordinary India. Buried deep within the country s collective memory they have for decades acted simultaneously as political and artistic salons as well as simple eating places.”

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