Description
A newly independent India, a new capital, and a young woman architect.
Urmila Eulie Chowdhury was twenty-eight when she came to work on the Chandigarh Capital Project led by the legendary Le Corbusier. She was soon indispensable. Creating a new city fostered in Eulie a lifelong commitment. She worked on sector layouts, designed houses, buildings and furniture, collaborating closely with Pierre Jeanneret. She also helped create the cultural spaces that make a city modern and cosmopolitan. Eulie fought till the end to preserve her beloved Chandigarh. Outspoken, enigmatic and ahead of her times, she was a force to be reckoned with.
About the authors
Anuradha (Anu) Kumar is the author of many works of fiction and non-fiction for both adults and children. Her most recent books are Love and Crime in the Time of Plague and Wanderers, Adventurers, and Missionaries: Early Americans in India 1700-1950, published by Speaking Tiger Books. She has degrees in history and management and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her collection of personal essays, The Sound of Lost Memories, was a finalist for the Gournay Prize (Ohio University Press) in 2025 and will be published by Cornerstone Press (University of Wisconsin). Anuradha lives in New Jersey (US).
About MINĪ
MINĪ – Stories of Art, Architecture & Style
MINĪ is a new collection of small, finely crafted books exploring the larger world or art, architecture and design. Each volume is a standalone extended essay that offers a fresh way of seeing and imagining our larger world.
Born in Barcelona and rooted in Chandigarh, India, Altrim celebrates this cultural exchange through MINĪ, original essays from voices across the globe.
Elegant, distinctive, and evocative, MINĪ offers a literary journey where imagination and design meet on every page.
