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By Geeta Pandey
image captionRajpath has been a huge draw for Delhi residents and tourists over the decades
Rajpath (King s Avenue), in the centre of the Indian capital, is to Delhi ites what Central Park is to New Yorkers, or the Champs-Elysees to Parisians.
The manicured lawns on either side of the wide ceremonial boulevard are a place for thousands to gather to soak up the winter sun or have an ice-cream on summer evenings.
But the 3km (1.8 mile)-long road, stretching from Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace, at one end to the India Gate war memorial at the other, now resembles a massive dust bowl.