The High Price of Higher Towers

It’s the Age of Redevelopment. Cities have plunged into the idea, and skylines are changing as higher and higher towers pierce the sky. On their part, the blueprints of sky-high buildings that will replace quaint bungalows or outdated tenements set hopes soaring higher than the wildest dreams.

- BY INVITATION Sathya Saran

Willy-nilly home owners agree to the idea; sick of peeling paint and stained walls, of staircases that have grown tired with climbing, they are more than ready to ignore the stories their walls whisper, and forget the floors that have felt their footfall for years, and exchange it all for a sparkling new abode.

The reality of the process is quite another story. It starts with packing and sorting, deciding how much of what one has collected in the cupboards and corners over years of living in one’s home needs to be given away or just discarded. It’s a trip down memory lane, as forgotten bits and pieces tug at the heartstrings, evoking emotions that had been buried in the hurly burly of daily living.