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Chandigarh to Delhi: Rubbish Relocated and the Confusing Internal World of the Town Planner

November 28th 2012
Not on many tourist itineries, Chandigarh's made for an interesting stop on our way to Delhi. On arrival, the first thing that was very apparent from the minute we got in a tuk tuk from the train station was that, unlike any other Indian city we'd visited, it followed a gridplan. It was designed in 1947 by Le Corbusier who felt that it should represent a modern Indian city, being the first ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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