The Tribune
Iwas just six months’ old when my father migrated from Ropar to this nascent city. Now, at seventy, I carry within me a living archive of Chandigarh’s evolution from a barren land to a modern planned city.
My mother often narrated tales about the old Ropar Road, which led to Mani Majra, then a bustling hub of early settlers. The road was flanked by tents and temporary shelters for PWD staff and officers who laid the first bricks of City Beautiful.
Sector 19 saw the earliest permanent structures, modest mud-brick buildings with yellow-whitewashed walls. They housed the Chandigarh Estate Office and the main post office. These buildings were demolished in 1975, but their legacy remains etched in my memory.
Delhi-bound buses once passed through Nagla Bus Stand, long before Sector 17’s termi
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