The urban botanist

The city of Chandigarh is Islamabad gone right. The similarities between these two cities — of their size, the most modern in the subcontinent — are numberless. Both were established with the stroke of a pen, like Lutyen’s New Delhi. The three were conceived ab initio as capitals — New Delhi to flaunt British imperialism, Islamabad as a covert acknowledgement of the Pakistan Army’s...

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