"Curiously, the Garden seems simultaneously made and not made for the visitor, and I felt as though I had happened across a great secret—despite the fact that on that day, like any other at the Garden, thousands of other paying visitors are also enmeshed in the same “secret.” Tracy Ann Buck Bonfitto from The Rock Garden: A Study of Memory, Place-Making, and Community in Chandigarh, India (Dissertation).

Nek Chand Foundation website - nekchand.com

Cover image - Nek Chand. Sculptures in the Rock Garden of Chandigarh

Reading List

Nek Chand's Outsider Art: The Rock Garden of Chandigarh. Lucienne Perry (Author), John Maizels (Author), Philippe Lespinasse (Photographer) - ISBN 978-2080305183

The Ruin, the Collection and the Theatre: archtiecture, sculpture and landscape of Nek Chand's Rock Garden, Chandigarh. Soumyen Bandyopadhyay and Iain Jackson. ISBN 978-1846311208

Papers

The Rock Garden: A Study of Memory, Place-Making, and Community in Chandigarh, India. Tracy Ann Buck Bonfitto. UCLA 2017

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