'Nehru': The Saint's Tactician
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By IAN BURUMA
Published: January 11, 2004
North of New Delhi, in the foothills of the Himalayas, lies the
extraordinary city of Chandigarh. Built in the 1950's, it was an
almost totally new creation, planned and designed by the French
modernist architect Le Corbusier, and strongly promoted by India's
first prime minister after independence, Jawaharlal Nehru. Everything
about this new state capital had to be a model of rationality: streets
and avenues, geometrically laid out, were identified by numbers.
Houses, in various standard sizes, were allocated to government
workers strictly according to rank. The scale is huge, concrete the
favored material. Chandigarh was to be the monument of modern India,
free from ancient customs and superstitions, free from the colonial
past, free to celebrate a brave new age.
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