The beautiful city Lahore had for decades been the heart of the Punjab

by Madugundu Krishna    August 16, 2012

 A new Lahore but more modern and beautiful than city refugees left behind in Pakistan. It was designed by Le Corbudier and Dr Randhawa planted its flowering trees. Chandigarh has become the symbol of the Punjabi’s aggressive exhibitionism.

The beautiful city Lahore had for decades been the heart of the Punjab. The ethic and emotional attachment is that people had for it was beyond comprehension.  

One fine morning in 1947 with the partition of the country is into Hindu and Muslim states Lahore was rudely snatched away from the people of Punjab.  

To erase it from the minds of the people something starling, and more beautiful, had to be made. The answer was Chadigarh. The man who could obliterate the past and focus attention on the future was Le Corbusier, the visionary who peeped into the 21st century.  

A gently rolling plain at the foot of the Himalayas, with its snow-capped peaks providing an idyllic backdrop, was chosen as the site for the city of the nature.

Corbu, as he had come to be known to the Punjabis, worked with frenzied zeal and the Punjabis matched it with equal enthusiasm. As the sketches left Corbu’s drawing-board the conceptions were transformed into concrete structures with zest.

In 20sort years a beautiful city sprang up. Its eat row of hoses, wide tree –lined avenues, the parks and gardens and the walk along the canal gave renewed pride to the Punjabis. At last the ghost of Lahore had been banished forever.

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