Chandigarh is a large city in northern India and capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana, and called 'The City Beautiful.' It is considered the best planned city in India. And the quietest of the cities I visited. The French architect la Corbusier conceived the master plan analogous to the human body; the head as the capital, sector 1 the heart (there are 17 sectors), lungs - open space and greenery, intelligence - educational institutions, circulation system - network of roads, and viscera- industrial area. The concept of the city was based on four functions; living, working, care for the body and care for the spirit. Chandigarh reminded me of Reston, Va, also a planned city designed by Robert E. Simon, where we once lived.
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| Open Hand museum |
On entering the city of Chandigarh I passed by a beautiful large statue of Lord Krishna on a Chariot and Arjuna, from the famous Hindu text the Bhagavad Gita, which I studied with my friend George Wohlgemuth of Woodstock.
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| Hippo at Chatt Bir zoo |
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| Nek Chand Rock Garden of Chandagarh
Women in India wear beautiful bright colored saris. I never saw women wearing western style clothes.
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| Women in bright colored saris at Sukhna Lake |
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