Barakhamba heights

On a segment of the city’s contemporary architecture

- Mayank Austen Soofi

Nobody walks on Barakhamba Road for sightseeing. But everyone should, especially after sundown when the many high-rises of the central Delhi avenue sparkle with night lights.

This evening, Indra Prakash and Narain Manzil are gleaming like mineral-rich crystalline stalagmites. It is, however, the building between these two that is sheathed in a brilliant splatter of multitudinous lights. The scene could be a Jackson Pollock painting—see photo. (The building in the centre is Hindustan Times House that actually stands on the road behind, on Kasturba Gandhi Marg.)