India’s New Building for Parliament: Body Without Soul

Commenting felicitously on what he has called India’s “age of ambition” scholar and commentator Pratap Bhanu Mehta has characterised “infrastructural nationalism” as the most dominantly visible feature of this ambition. Speculating on how this new ambition is symbolised by an architectural assertion, Mehta wonders if it may also generate a new “righteousness”. Well, the answer seems to have [...]