PHOTOS: The streets of Delhi, during times of Covid-19
The streets of Delhi feel like they have metasised into a time warp of the past. Wide open pristine boulevards, and telling architecture that harkens history with compelling contemporaneity, present a formidable flashback to fight an unseen and merciless enemy presently banging on our doors.
I grew up in Delhi, a city that has given me so immeasurably a treasure trove of memories of streets walked on, buildings visited, parks strolled, laughter
I grew up in Delhi, a city that has given me so immeasurably a treasure trove of memories of streets walked on, buildings visited, parks strolled, laughter
By: Parul Sharma
Delhi’s Central Post Office: Two architects dominated the shaping of Delhi’s design DNA in the last century. In the early part, Sir Edwin Lutyens for forging the city’s imperial stature; and in the 1950s, Habib Rehman, the man who built modern Delhi. Dak Bhawan was designed in 1954 with a wide facade extending along Patel Chowk and is Delhi’s Central Post Office. Directly across from Dak Bhawan is the equally gripping Sardar Patel Bhawan, also designed by Rehman, whose studies at MIT also led to a fortuitous friendship with Walter Gropius, the father of the Bauhaus movement.
