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Numb in India, part 2: The city beautiful - by Sam Kriss

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Once again, Numb at the Lodge is on holiday. Paid subscribers can join us in a brain-melting tourist odyssey across the past and future of Indias real and imagined. The really good stuff is behind the paywall: this time, it’s about an ancient royal horse-sacrifice and the universe made of horses. If you want to come along, all you have to do is click the button below: Upgrade to paid Today I’m writing from Chandigarh, the purpose-built capital of Punjab and Haryana. After Partition, the traditional Punjabi capital of Lahore ended up in Pakistan, and communal rioting had left much of the state in ruins. Chandigarh was the solution: a new, modern city for a new, forward-looking country. It was designed by the notorious Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier: you might remember him from his slightly supervillainish plan to demolish the entire Left Bank of Paris and replace it with dozens of huge, evenly-spaced cruciform housing blocks. For some reason, the Parisian authorities never let him

Numb on Tour Numb in India, part 2: The city beautiful Modernist utopia, Vedic sacrifice, and the terrible secret of the Sun Sam Kriss Oct 04, 2024 ∙ Paid 12 Share Once again, Numb at the Lodge is on holiday. Paid subscribers can join us in a brain-melting tourist odyssey across the past and future of Indias real and imagined. The really good stuff is behind the paywall: this time, it’s about an ancient royal horse-sacrifice and the universe made of horses. If you want to come along, all you have to do is click the button below: Subscribe Today I’m writing from Chandigarh, the purpose-built ca

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