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    THE POWER ARCHITECT

    Jan 01, 2022 4 minutes
    By Kai Friese
    Photograph by
    BANDEEP SINGH

    hile the past two years have certainly been…memorable, they have not, by and large, been commemorated by any historically significant construction activity—with the exception of a clutch of projects close to the prime minister’s heart. The Ram Mandir at Ayodhya, of course. The Kashi Vishwanath temple corridor, recently inaugurated to considerable televised fanfare. And the Central Vista redevelopment—a vast construction site in the heart of the capital that controversially burst into activity while the city was in lockdown and the nearby Parliament in suspension. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has missed no photo-op to underline his role in bulldozing these projects onto the national landscape, this has also turned

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