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100-year-old vision
Updated On: 20 August, 2013 12:02 AM IST | | The Guide Team
August 21, marks the 100th birth anniversary of Dr Jamshed Bhabha, founder of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). The Guide shares frames of how one man's foresight fuelled a thriving cultural centre in Mumbai
Did you know
Dr VK Narayana Menon, the first Executive Director of NCPA. Philip Johnson was the architect of Tata Theatre and Professor Cyril Harris was the acoustics consultant.

An aerial view of the NCPA taken in 1976. The NCPA is built on a reclaimed 8 acre area of the sea bought at the price of '2 per year for 99 years. Pics Courtesy/NCPA Archives
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