Chandigarh, April 19 -- (Blurb) Saw Chandigarh coming up, nation being built, he says during biography discussion

There is a quiet authority in the way Karan Singh speaks-measured, reflective, and deeply rooted in history. "I have seen this city coming up," he says, invoking memories of Le Corbusier, the visionary behind Chandigarh's design. For him, the city is not just an urban experiment but a symbol-"a response to the trauma of Partition, the first properly planned city of independent India."

Singh was speaking during a discussion on his biography - A statesman and a seeker. Singh was just 18 and had barely recovered from a mysterious illness that left him bedridden for over a year when he was catapulted into political life in 1949....