Tuesday, May 8, 2012

A few weekends ago, I joined a short morning trip to Rashtrapati Bhavan, the President's home. When Britain moved the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911, Edward Luytens was commissioned to design the building. Of course, after independence, it transferred to the new Indian government, and has housed the President (not to be confused with the Prime Minister, who is the head of government here) ever since.

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