Culture, increasingly fractured and unplanned
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Under the Central Vista project, the urban planning for a single, linked cultural district seems to have been tossed out
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Under the Central Vista project, the urban planning for a single, linked cultural district seems to have been tossed out
We have been given to understand from the publicly known plans for the “Central Vista Redevelopment Project”, that the National Museum of India is to occupy what are currently the South Block offices of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Defence, and the Ministry of External Affairs, as well as the North Block offices of the Home and Finance Ministries. These buildings were designed by Herbert Baker. The Parliament House building designed by Edwin Lutyens is to be turned into another museum, apparently a ‘museum of democracy’. The national capital could, in that case, potentially have a grand plaza of three extraordinary intercon
In Lutyens’s Delhi, where some buildings will soon be memories
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Familiar places, visited by the most and least powerful, are on the demolition list
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The Central Vista Redevelopment Project site at Rajpath in New Delhi on May 17, 2021.
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Familiar places, visited by the most and least powerful, are on the demolition list
On crisp winter afternoons in Delhi, in the pre-pandemic era, a reporter could do the rounds of the busy bureaucratic corridors on foot. The capital is not much of a walker’s paradise, except the small pocket called Lutyens’ Delhi.
ASI with IIT experts to preserve 1,300-year-old Kailasnathar temple in TN
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Chennai, May 26 : The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is planning to rope in experts from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, for preserving the 1,300-year-old Kailasnathar temple, Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu.
The temple is also in the tentative list of UNESCO s world heritage sites.
According to ASI officials, a detailed survey was conducted that found that the temple which was believed to be constructed in late 7th-early 8th century AD, its murals have been fading away and chemical conservation has not been arresting the deterioration of the temple.