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| "I have welcomed very greatly one experiment in India, Chandigarh. Many people argue about it, some like it, and some dislike it. It is the biggest example in India of experimental architechture. It hits you on the head, and makes you think. You may squirm at the impact, but it has made you think and inbibe new ideas, and the one thing which India requires in many fields is being hit on the head so that it may think. I do not like every building in Chandigarh. I like some of them very much. I like the general conception of the the township very much, but above all, I like the creative approach, not being tied down to what has been done by our forefathers but thinking in new terms of light and air and ground and water and human beings." Jawaharlar Nehru, first prime minister of independent India (Speech 17th March 1959)
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