Chandigarh was built as a modernist experiment, but the culture inside it is unmistakably Punjabi — Baisakhi and Lohri are marked with the same Bhangra circles and community kitchens found across the wider region, just inside a very different skyline.
The city's Rock Garden, built entirely from industrial and household waste over decades by one self-taught artist, is its own answer to what craft can look like without any traditional material at all.
Worth knowing
- ·Baisakhi and Lohri celebrated with Punjab's full folk-music tradition
- ·The Rock Garden — decades of sculpture built from reclaimed waste
- ·A planned modernist city carrying an older regional culture inside it
Living traditions
Traditions & performing arts of Chandigarh
Experiences in Chandigarh
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