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The triangular Parliament building draws its context from the Central Vista and surrounding heritage buildings while it carries forward India’s democratic values.
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The triangular Parliament building draws its context from the Central Vista and surrounding heritage buildings while it carries forward India’s democratic values.
According to the official Central Vista website, around 2,500 stonecutters and masons were employed just to shape the stones and marbles required for the construction of the old Parliament building.
Part of Modi's push to eclipse Delhi's colonial-era architecture
The old Parliament building, an architectural splendour and a historic landmark that guided the destiny of India for nearly a century and whose illustrious legacy will now be consigned to the pages of history, was inaugurated on January 18, 1927, by then Viceroy Lord Irwin. On May 28, when Prime
The new Parliament building is set to replace the existing one as the seat of the world’s largest democracy. After being the icon of Indian democracy for almost a century, the existing historic structure will now cede its place to the newly-built Parliament building.