For The Tribune, Chandigarh | November 3, 2016 Jawahar Lal Nehru at the capital site in Chandigarh Partition in 1947 was the greatest...

For  The Sunday Tribune, Chandigarh | October 25, 2015 The foundation of the new Punjab capital, Chandigarh, was laid in 1952 by Prime...

The Chandigarh of Nehru and Corbusier has almost become a curiosity for a stream of visitors from the West who continue to see him as a...

For The Sunday Tribune | June 8, 1980 WE were sipping iced nimboo-pani with some friends. The conversation was about life at Chandigarh. “What is there to do in this dull city?" exploded the husband in virile Punjabi, "All you get here are serving or retired bureaucrats, and a duller lot would be hard to find. This city is like Bournemouth, a watering place for the superannuated. There is no cultural life, no political controversy, not even a worthwhile jalsa or riot. All i

For   The Tribune | November 26, 1979 He stands defiantly on the traffic island leading to the Punjab Secretariat. He wears a yellow turban and a military great coat, over which he carries a sword. A steel chakra in his hand, a distant and aloof look in his eyes, he occasionally walks with a proud and measured step along the concrete rim of the traffic island. Sometimes he stops and addresses in lofty tones the 9 o'clock traffic of Ministers and civil servants that swirls pas

For   The Tribune | March 4, 1979 At Cambridge University, achieving high academic results is not the main purpose of life. The students are there to savour the unique intellectual and social atmosphere of the place and to endeavour to develop their talents and faculties to the fullest extent possible. Some want to be artists, others writers and yet others Shakespearian actors. Each one gives to his chosen interest all his energies. If in his three years a man can learn some

For The Indian Express | October 6, 1978 Chandigarh: Glorious tributes have been paid to Le Corbusier by many great architects of the...

Such is the chaos that one notices on the Chandigarh Roads For   The Sunday Tribune, Chandigarh | June 11, 1978 Many years ago the road going past Safdarjung airport in New Delhi towards the Kutb Minar was christened "the murder mile" by an enterprising journalist: The reason was simple enough. The road was narrow, the traffic heavy and the mess was compounded by a railway crossing near the airport that remained closed for long periods. Impatient motorists often banged into e

In Chandigarh you can't avoid the topic. The conversation invariably turns to house building. “In which sector have you built your...

These days everyone wants to have a good time. They all “want to enjoy”. How does one do that in an overgrown village like Chandigarh?...