The Indian Government's Central Vista project, designed by Bimal Patel and his firm HCP, is now being executed at top speed and at a pharaonic expense of approximately $3 billion, involves a massive and destructive rearrangement of this entire area, all in the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's supposed aim of signaling a new, "post-colonial'' vision for India and celebrating 75 years of Independence in 2022.