With the Rashtrapati Bhavan to their south, and the Nehru memorial to the north, the three statues at Delhi’s Teen Murti Circle have long stood witness to India’s tryst with destiny: from a brutal repression of the freedom struggle to the fall of the British Empire, and Independence.
But now, the statues – which were built in 1922 to mark the sacrifice of the Jodhpur, Mysore and Hyderabad princes in the First World War – are seeing another battle play out in their vicinity. It’s now between the Congress and BJP, on the land housing the Nehru memorial, to capture space within a building, and minds outside.
