Chandigarh, forever associated with Le Corbusier and Modernism and described Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, as 'unfettered by the traditions of the past, a symbol of nation's faith in future', is now more than fifty years old. Here Vikram Prakash examines the iconic city's transformation in the face of globalization and its place in an India whose population is estimated to reach two billion by the end of the century.