what were the opinions of people about rahim khan ?
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A sweet smell of winter mist is fused with the pungent odour of fresh lime mortar as one enters the sandstone paved pathway at Rahim Khan’s mausoleum. Standing tall, grand, and newly restored, the double-domed structure on New Delhi’s busy Mathura Road is hard to miss. Yet, about six years back, when it was first investigated for conservation by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), the cracks in the dilapidated arches of the mausoleum were so grave that the structural engineer came rushing out in disbelief that it was still managing to stand erect.
“The kind of cracks on its foundation could fit in an entire human being,” says Ratish Nanda, CEO of the AKTC. He adds that the condition of the structure was such that it would have collapsed had it not been conserved immediately. “This is something I never say for any monument, since these buildings are meant to survive generations,” he says. Nanda explains that in terms of the amount of effort required to restore the grand mausoleum of Khan, it is perhaps the largest conservation project ever undertaken for any monument of national importance in India.