Culture, increasingly fractured and unplanned Updated: Updated: May 28, 2021 01:14 IST Under the Central Vista project, the urban planning for a single, linked cultural district seems to have been tossed out Share Article 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 interconnected museums in the vicinity of the Rashtrapati Bhavan itself. What a spectacular statement they would make to the people of India and the rest of the world.