WILLIAM DALRYMPLE recalls a brief interlude with his friend and photographer PRABUDDHA DASGUPTA, one filled with lazy afternoons and bike rides across Goa tracing a lost world
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Ten years ago, Prabuddha Dasgupta cold-called me in Delhi, and asked if I’d like to collaborate with him on a book about Goa.
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