Almost everywhere in the world, the built environment meets the water with a hard, almost defensive edge, even in a city like Venice. But the Indian subcontinent has a wonderfully open relationship with water. In India, at any ghat, we see steps that meet the water, descend beneath it and let it wash over them. This does not feel like a boundary, rather a fluid meeting point where our clearly defined world encounters and intermingles with a more mysterious and formless state.
