Edwin Lutyens’ bust replaced with C Rajagopalachari; British architect’s great-grandson reacts: ‘Sad to hear…’
President Droupadi Murmu unveiled a bust of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, the first and only Indian Governor General of independent India, at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday, replacing a monument to British architect Edwin Lutyens in a symbolic break from its colonial past. Reacting to the development, Lutyens’ great-grandson, British biologist Matt Ridley, said he was “sad to…