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You must enter the High Court via the car park. On the way is the small High Court Museum (admission free; h10am-5pm Mon-Sat) containing assorted memorabilia including original Le Corbusier sketches and the handcuffs worn by Nathuram Godse, Mahatma regular outlet voltage Gandhi s assassin (see boxed text, p 1096 ). Most exhibits are on the 1st fl oor. On request, there s a free guided tour.

JUNK ART GENIUS Following Independence, as refugees flooded across the Pakistan border and a newly liberated India made the bold statement that was Chandigarh, regular outlet voltage one of the new city s road inspectors, a diminutive arrival from Pakistan called Nek Chand, was struck by the amount of waste generated as villages were cleared in the construction of Chandigarh. regular outlet voltage Chand hauled this matter back to his jungle home and gave it a second life as sculptural material. Eventually he had tens of thousands of forms made of urban and industrial waste, as well as local stone, created by his own hands and the slow forces of nature. His battalions of water women, pipers, chai drinkers, monkeys, cheeky stick men wearing tea-cup hats, dancing women and other characters steadily regular outlet voltage multiplied in secretly sculpted spaces. regular outlet voltage Chand s efforts weren t officially discovered until 15 years after they began, regular outlet voltage when a government survey crew stumbled upon them in 1973. The unauthorised garden was illegally occupying government land and should technically regular outlet voltage have been demolished, but fortunately the local council recognised the garden as a cultural asset. Chand was given 50 labourers regular outlet voltage and paid a salary so he could devote himself to the project. Today, the garden is said to receive over 2000 visitors a day. There s a Nek Chand Foundation (www.nekchand.com), raising funds and recruiting volunteers. Chand had no formal education beyond high school. In my childhood I used to build mud houses and other toys. He is said to be influenced by modernist masters regular outlet voltage such as Le Corbusier and Gaudi, but he is clear on the main source of his ideas: they are a gift from God.