Modi opens new parliament building in part of makeoverReuters, NEW DELHIIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s new parliament building yesterday, a modern complex which is part of his Hindu nationalist government’s grand plan to give a makeover to the British colonial-era architecture in the nation’s capital. Vehicles drive past the new parliament building in New Delhi on Friday. “To open a new parliament building without the opposition, it does not mean there is a democracy in the country. The triangular-shaped parliament complex is just across from the old, circular heritage building built by British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker in 1927, two decades before India’s independence. The old parliament is to be converted into a museum.

Source: Taipei Times May 28, 2023 22:49 UTC