Mon, 10 May 2021

11:07

Construction of the Central Vista project has begun

"The prime minister's plans for Rajpath and India Gate are on another scale. When he's finished with it, we'll have two Parliaments for the price of one. One of his predecessors, Muhammad bin Tughlaq, ruined Delhi trying to transfer the capital to Daulatabad. His next brainwave was reforming the Delhi Sultanate's currency; that didn't go well either.

"In his homage to Tughlaq, Narendra Modi cunningly reversed this catastrophic sequence; he started with the currency. Having purged the economy with his killer cure, demonetization, he has now, in a bold and original move, decided to wreck the capital without transferring it. By building a new Parliament in front of the old one, and building offices on either side of Rajpath, he plans to photo-bomb our collective memories. Planting babus and buildings where people used to gather and play, making Rajpath and India Gate unrecognizable, is his road map to immortality."

Mukul Kesavan on Delhi's enduring memorial to war heroes and the Rajpath. Read it here.

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