1910
13.80x
8.90cm
Qutub Minar is among the tallest brick minarets in the world, an important early example of Indo-Islamic architecture built between 1199-1220 ACE. The Mexican writer Octavio Paz described it in his book In Light of India (1995):
"it is difficult to think of another tower that combines the height, solidity, and slender elegance of the Qutab Minar (thirteenth century). The reddish stone, contrasting with the transparency of the air and the blue of the sky, gives the monumnet a vertical dynamism, like a huge rocket aimed at the stars. It is a "victory tower," deeply rooted in the ground, that unbendingly ascends, a prodigious stone tree." (Harvest, 1997, p. 17)