“The most prominent among those who fashioned the city’s post-independence landmarks — many especially commissioned by Nehru who wanted “the temples of modern India” to take the place of older, conventional ones — was Habib Rahman, the creator of several modernist buildings such as the Gandhi Memorial, Office of the Auditor General of India, the Post andTelegraph Bbuilding, Indraprastha Bhawan, WHO headquarters, a hostel for in-transit diplomats, a warren of flats for junior to middle-level government servants, Rabindra Bhawan, the mazars of Maulana Azad and President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad to name just a few.”
The Hindu
Rahman explaining Rabindra Bhavan plans to Nehru, May 1961
Delhi redefined
RAKHSHANDA JALIL
“The most prominent among those who fashioned the city’s post-independence landmarks — many especially commissioned by Nehru who wanted “the temples of modern India” to take the place of older, conventional ones — was Habib Rahman, the creator of several modernist buildings such as the Gandhi Memorial, Office of the Auditor General of India, the Post andTelegraph Bbuilding, Indraprastha Bhawan, WHO headquarters, a hostel for in-transit diplomats, a warren of flats for junior to middle-level government servants, Rabindra Bhawan, the mazars of Maulana Azad and President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad to name just a few.”
The Hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/article2705453.ece
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