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Delhi’s Shastri Bhawan was unlike any other govt building. It held a thousand stories

Unlike other Bhawans, which have been mostly focused on related ministries in a particular building, Shastri Bhawan represented multiplicity like no other.

As Shastri Bhawan, a landmark location on Rajendra Prasad Road in New Delhi, gets closer to demolition, murals by Satish Gujral on the façade of the building, which have been there for 60 years, will be among those in search of a new address, as The Indian Express reported recently. While the headquarters of about a dozen government ministries and departments housed in Shastri Bhawan make their way to the swanky Central Vista offices, memories of the place would surely keep it alive for thousands of visitors and journalists, besides those for whom it was a workplace.

The seven-storeyed building, often described as a run-down office and not quite smelling like power corridors are expected to, was rather unique. Unlike other Bhawans, which have been mostly focused on related ministries in a particular building, Shastri Bhawan represented multiplicity like no other. Named after India’s second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, this Bhawan served as the headquarters for ministries as diverse as information and broadcasting (I&B), petroleum and natural gas, corporate affairs, coal, education, law & justice, sports & youth affairs, tribal affairs and women & child........

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