As heated discussions about the central vista development project are now raging across art and architectural circles, I am getting more and more intrigued about the way Indian, or rather the elite Indian mind works.
If I really get candid, the central vista project, as it stands today is actually not at all about the cultural assertion of a new nationalist India as it is being portrayed by the ruffled elites of India who sense it as an attack on their culture-fiefdom, but is actually exactly opposite to it.