Connaught Place under Covid-19
May 01, 2020
New Delhi [India], May 1 : Connaught Place, the world's largest one-mile round market is part of New Delhi that Lutyens designed. Name changed to Rajiv Chowk, yet it is still known as Connaught Place. It is a unique shopping centre of its kind where shoppers can walk under comfortable shade of a wide verandah during the terribly hot months of Delhi's summer. Lutyens used Georgian style of architecture and made this market unique in the world. A lively busy centre, it is today almost a ghost town under the lockdown in the wake of COVID-19. In my years I have never seen it like this, not even when curfew was imposed during the 1947 riots in Delhi.