But his heart lies further North — in Nishat Bagh, Srinagar, a Mughal garden built during the reign of Emperor Jehangir. “LEAF {Landscape Environment and Advancement Foundation}, the research arm of Prabhakar B Bhagwat, the firm established by my father, looks at creating knowledge. One of the questions that we asked ourselves was ‘What is the idea of the Indian garden?’ We don’t have a very good answer to that. Modernity brought with it the schism between landscape architects and landscape gardeners. So, how much has changed in the arena of Indian landscape architecture?

Source: The Hindu June 20, 2017 10:41 UTC