Modi’s ghastly Delhi dream The plan to remodel Lutyens’s grand capital is a monument to conceit https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/april-2020/modis-ghastly-delhi-dream/?s=03
Modi is not merely a prime minister in the traditional sense: he regards himself as nothing less than the father of what his admirers call “New India”. It’s hardly surprising that a man of such staggering self-conceit would sooner or later seek to memorialise himself for the ages.