Nek Chand
April 22, 2008 by chapterten
Nek Chand was a humble roads inspector for the Department of Public Works in the north Indian city of Chandigarh. In his off hours, in the middle of the forest, he began to build a secret place. This place, a rock garden, created over the course of four decades from urban and industrial waste, would eventually expand to cover 40 acres of land. To the surprise of this unassuming man and those around him, Nek Chand’s Rock Garden would become the world’s largest visionary environment and India’s second largest tourist attraction after the Taj Mahal.
