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| | The Hindu : National : French architects' New Year gift to Majuli |
 | | Guwahati: Jim Chauvin and Maka Korbaa, two young architects from France, have given Majuli, Assam's cultural capital and one of the largest river-islands in the world, a unique New Year gift: a tourist lodge built from bamboo, modelled on the Chang Ghar, the traditional hut of the local Mising tribe on a raised platform. |
 | | The architects were offered a plot of land at Karpunpuili in Garmur, the headquarters town of the river-island, by Danny Gam, a tourist guide and poet. |
 | | Although a traditional Mising Chang Ghar does not have a balcony or a glass window, the architects have had added the features, made of bamboo, to provide it a mix of traditional and modern architecture. |
| www.hindu.com /2006/01/01/stories/2006010104691200.htm (402 words) |
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