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The changing landscape of Alibaug , just south of Mumbai, is the dire story unfolding across India, where land use has changed from agrarian to urban in a haphazard manner. The pressing question is: Where is the infrastructure to support this rapid construction?
Long before Mumbai ‘discovered’
Alibaug
, this rural idyll had been discovered by sea-farers and settlers, remnants of which pop out like little totems to India’s multicultural history.
A Star of David above a shop’s cash register signals that the Bene Israelis landed here 2,000 years ago. A medieval Portuguese chapel coexists with many temples and forts that stand guard like old-time warriors over this sleepy stretch of coastal Raigad dotted with mango orchards, fishing villages and weekend villas.
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