Location: India
Member Since:
Dec. 18, 2023
Bishambar Das Nanda
Biography
Bishambar Das Nanda was a civil engineer who built earthquake resistant housing in Quetta following the devastating earthquake in 1935, and built new townships in Nilokheri, near Kurukshetra, and Fulia in West Bengal, to rehabilitate refugees following Partition. When he built his home Vishav Bhavan in Sector 16, Chandigarh, in 1953, it was the first private home in the newly planned city, a new capital for the Indian state of Punjab. He was a member of India’s Planning Commission and General Secretary of the Bharat Sevak Samaj.
Where to buy in print
Books
Mud Houses and Brick Walls Rebuilding Lives in Quetta and Nilokheri
by Bishambar Das Nanda
Price:
$8.99 USD.
Words: 107,960.
Language:
English.
Published: December 18, 2023
by
Zorba Books.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir
Fifty years have gone by since these words were written. Twenty-five years after Independence, the generation that came of age under the influence of Gandhi still retained a youthful, perhaps naive hope of building a society and a Nation that could live up to Gandhi’s lofty ideals.