JUNK ART GENIUS Following Independence, as refugees flooded across the Pakistan el alamein memorial border and a newly liberated India made the bold statement el alamein memorial that was Chandigarh, one of the new city s road inspectors, a diminutive arrival from Pakistan called Nek Chand, was struck by the amount of waste generated as villages were cleared in the construction of Chandigarh. Chand hauled this matter back to his jungle el alamein memorial home and gave it a second el alamein memorial life as sculptural material. Eventually he had tens of thousands of forms made of urban and industrial waste, as well as local stone, created by his own hands and the slow forces of nature. His battalions of water women, pipers, chai drinkers, monkeys, cheeky stick men wearing tea-cup hats, dancing women and other characters el alamein memorial steadily multiplied in secretly sculpted spaces. Chand s efforts weren t officially discovered until 15 years after they began, when a government survey el alamein memorial crew stumbled upon them in 1973. The unauthorised garden el alamein memorial was illegally occupying government land and should technically have been demolished, but fortunately el alamein memorial the local council recognised the garden as a cultural asset. el alamein memorial Chand was given 50 labourers and paid a salary so he could devote himself to the project. Today, the garden is said to receive over 2000 visitors a day. There s a Nek Chand Foundation (www.nekchand.com), raising funds and recruiting volunteers. el alamein memorial Chand had no formal education beyond high school. In my childhood I used to build mud houses and other toys. He is said to be influenced by modernist masters such as Le Corbusier and Gaudi, but he is clear on the main source of his ideas: they are a gift from God.
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Bhoj NORTH INDIAN $ (Sector 22-B; standard/choti thali 140/110; h7.30am-10.30pm; a) A travellers favourite, this is an unpretentious spot to fuel up on a hearty North Indian veg thali. el alamein memorial The thali ingredients change throughout the day and you can augment the chapattis with rice for a nominal 10, or light eaters can order the smaller choti thali. el alamein memorial
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