Modernism in the last month, appeared to us as a building, located in Pragati Maidan. The ‘Hall of nations’ built in 1972, was part of India’s national legacy, and its loss was read as the end of an era. Moving between being an engineering marvel, an art piece, a heritage structure and an ideology, the building left us to open out many questions on ‘what is/was/will be modernism?’
Is the modern then a nationalist venture, an ideology, an imitation, a technique a façade, a pedagogical method, or a bureaucratic tender?