"Hindon't"
Lengthy article about the disappearing Lutyens buildings in Delhi.
The rubble of the RajTasty quote:
Like Wren, Lutyens was a champion of the classical at a time when his contemporaries were still building in Gothic; and Lutyens, like Wren, found himself under great pressure to build New Delhi in a style he abhorred. In Lutyens' case the architect was initially ordered to build the new capital in the strange Anglo-Mughal hybrid known as Tropical Gothic, a style whose latticed screens and pseudo-oriental borrowings filled Lutyens with horror. As he put it in a letter: 'They want me to Hindoo, Hindon't I say ...'
* Ray, 11/16/2004 12:57:19 AM
