Setting legacies in stone: What could be behind the Centre’s plan to transform Lutyens Delhi March 4, 2021, 9:31 PM IST
The writer is former Congress Spokesperson
An essay in these columns by popular author Ashwin Sanghi, on the controversial Central Vista Redevelopment Plan (‘Evolution Is Always Noisy’, February 12, 2021), brilliantly summarised the compelling need for an alternate Indian version of Washington DC’s iconic National Mall or the grandiose Champs-Elysees in Paris. But we must look at the Central Vista project beyond its proposed architectural aestheticism and tourist footfalls.
A chagrined opposition is calling it a grotesque monstrosity, an individual’s (PM Modi’s) extravagant indulgence with megalomania. Modi dismisses this as Congress’s characteristic pettifogging. The project will fructify in 2024, showboating his New India. BJP’s political business model has always been to alter India gradually and imper
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