Iwas born and raised in Chandigarh. For me this city is not just a place, it is who I am. As an architect who studied at the Chandigarh College of Architecture and then IIT Roorkee, I grew up walking through living lessons of modernism. For us, Le Corbusier is not just a name in history books, his vision is stitched into our everyday life.

When I interned in Geneva, I would beam with pride telling people there that it’s my own Chandigarh’s Secretariat and High Court buildings that sit on the back of their Swiss franc currency note 10 CHF, which is dedicated to Le Corbusier. My colleagues, my neighbours, my banker in Geneva, and even strangers I met on trains across Europe, all came to know that the 10 CHF has buildings from an Indian city on its back i.e. Chandigarh, my city.

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