The Rock Garden (Chandigarh, India) Reviews
Newest Review: ... second of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy) which he called the "Someone else's problem field". In this concept any object - in this case a 12 acre preposterous rock garden - can be made utterly invisible because it's simply someone else's problem and need not be worried about. When Chand's work was finally discovered the officials were thrown into a quandary. On one hand the garden was totally illegal, had no planning permission and by rights they should tear it down to set an example to other naughty people. On the other, it was also great fun and a significant work of art and he'd probably saved them a fortune on ... more
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The Rock Garden (Chandigarh, India): A load of rubbish or a work of art? (1671 words)by - written on 24/03/08, updated on 24/03/08 (Very useful, 171 readings)
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India's Weirdest City Chandigarh is possibly India's strangest city. It's not strange for any particularly weird things that go on there or any bizarre festivals, temples or such-like. What sets the city apart is its architecture and layout. It has a reputation as India's first planned city - by which I mean a city that is as it was designed to be, rather than one that evolved over centuries or millennia. The city was created in the 1950s to provide a home for hundreds of thousands of people displaced as a result of the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. What had been just a large empty piece of land in the shadow of the Shivalik Mountains, very quickly ... Read the complete review
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