{"id":27645,"date":"2017-11-16T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=27645"},"modified":"2017-11-16T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T13:57:32","slug":"botanists-great-granddaughter-mourns-state-of-krumbiegel-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=27645","title":{"rendered":"Botanist\u2019s great granddaughter mourns state of Krumbiegel Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alyia Phelps-Gardiner Krumbiegel | Photo Credit: Bhagya Prakash K<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following a report in\u00a0<\/em>The Hindu\u00a0about the crumbling state of Krumbiegel Hall, Alyia Phelps-Gardiner Krumbiegel, Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel\u2019s great granddaughter, expresses her displeasure over the neglect of the historical structure.<\/em><\/p>\n

In her letter to\u00a0<\/em>The Hindu,\u00a0Ms. Krumbiegel writes about how her forefather realised that he had found home when he first touched Indian soil at the age of 26. Excerpts from the letter:<\/em><\/p>\n

My great grandfather was a master at economic botany,\u00a0<\/b>encouraging the exchange of plants and seeds. He continued this at Lalbagh Botanical Garden. His very last planning assignment for the Indian government when he was 90-years-old was to plan the Rajghat memorial gardens (New Delhi). Royalty protected him when the British saw an enemy in every German. He gave Karnataka so much.<\/p>\n

The lecture hall which he spent so much time in was renamed Krumbiegel Hall in his honour. Which now brings me to the sad state of how Lalbagh (authorities) have treated a building named in honour of one of the five superintendents who made substantial differences to Lalbagh and Bangalore.<\/b><\/p>\n

Was Krumbiegel Hall a heritage building or was is it not a heritage building? In 2013, it seemed to be a heritage building.<\/p>\n

I really have heard it all ….. assurance that it was under restoration. Broken promises.<\/p>\n

\u2018Whatever he touched he adorned\u2019 is written on his tombstone. But, a man who gave so much to the country he found a home in \u2013 he always wanted independence for India and was never afraid to voice these views while he lived and breathed India \u2014 his life\u2019s work is slowly being wiped away to be memories in the wind.<\/p>\n

Krumbiegel Hall runs deep in my veins. I\u2019m very hopeful that the department will recognise that Krumbiegel Hall needs to be rebuilt with the original frontage restored and reinstated once again.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.thehindu.com \/ The Hindu \/ Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru \/ November 16th, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following a report in\u00a0The Hindu\u00a0about the crumbling state of Krumbiegel Hall, Alyia Phelps-Gardiner Krumbiegel, Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel\u2019s great granddaughter, expresses her displeasure over the neglect of the historical structure. In her letter to\u00a0The Hindu,\u00a0Ms. Krumbiegel writes about how her forefather realised that he had found home when he first touched Indian soil at the age … Continue reading Botanist\u2019s great granddaughter mourns state of Krumbiegel Hall<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[664,4,7,15,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-green-initiatives-environment","category-records-all","category-world-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27645"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27654,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27645\/revisions\/27654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}