Who needs Lutyens?

In 1913, architect Edwin Lutyens stood on the crest of Raisina Hill, and in the yellow summer light, gazed eastwards, across low scrub and kikar, down the long plain that would become the setting for his last major work. He stood there long enough to envision the grand scheme that he would undertake over the next two decades, a scheme that would become -- for the future inhabitants of his great enterprise -- the most sacred ground of the Indian Capital.

Now that a new plan to reset the scheme to 21st-century standards has been unveiled, what is the constructed relevance