Twentieth-century modernist buildings in India are emblematic of shifts in the country’s social, cultural, political, and technological milieu. These buildings catalyze dialogs about our recent past. There is a dichotomy of modernist buildings that exists between being a heritage artifact and also navigating the everyday realities of the new urban Indian milieu, giving rise to the emerging phenomena of neo-heritage conflicts. These pedigreed monuments by the masters are presently situated at the margin-spatially, temporally, aesthetically, and politically. The court case of Hall of Nations (HoN), New Delhi, has been analyzed in this paper using the case study method to explicate these conflicts. HoN is a landmark lawsuit that entails a nexus of heritage conundrums, conflicting legacies, stakeholder disputes, and legal implications. The HoN case has been used to look at Indian modernism in light of five themes that emerge under neo-heritage conflicts (1) The conflicts of Rights of stakeholders; (2) The 60-year mark of heritage-modernist buildings mediating notions of Indian heritage; (3) The functional paradox of heritage; (4)The past and present monumentality of India and (5) The present-day value of modernist buildings in India. The beginning of a new identity and re-drawing of the intrinsic values of a building occurs after any courtroom verdict.