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| Subject: Statist parasites: Election casualties refuse to budge in Delhi's leafy suburb Fri Sep 26, 2014 10:11 pm | |
| The lush, green heart of modern India is Lutyens' Delhi – an urban landscape characterised by its expansive lawns, tranquil if dilapidated bungalows, and an intense conglomeration of the country's most rich and powerful.
In a city with a population heading north of 22 million, most of whom are cramped into a seemingly endless horizon of grey concrete towers, Lutyens' Delhi is the deceptive anomaly at the city's centre.
Named after the renowned British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, who was instrumental in the design of the new capital for what was then the jewel in the crown of the British empire, Lutyens' Delhi's wide, tree-lined boulevards reek of a distant colonial past.
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