Indian modernism, like much mid-century modern architecture worldwide, is under threat today—being variously erased, revised and reimagined to make it more palatable to the economic, political and aesthetic exigencies of the new world orders of the 21st century.

Is it still relevant? Do its aesthetics and, perhaps more importantly, its ethics and ideals still have something to offer or should we museumize a few representative examples and send the rest their way to dusty implosion?

Using the life and career of Aditya Prakash as our starting point, this panel discussion will deliberate on this topic in terms of its various contemporary postcolonial contexts, such as preservation, the cold war, climate change, neo-nationalism and decolonization.