Everyone needs a home. In ancient times, people built houses to live and last a lifetime. Then modernity happened and the house turned from primarily a place to live to an investment vehicle and a speculative instrument, turning home-buying turned into a high-stakes gamble. In big cities, space crunch dictated that homes be concrete boxes…
As I said in the previous part, I don’t have money to buy an apartment. But even if I did would I have bought one? I doubt it. I don’t think I would ever buy an apartment in India because I get claustrophobic in apartment buildings among other things. These other things are taken from…
Notwithstanding all the arguments put forward in the previous part, the single biggest reason why I am not buying an apartment in Bangalore (or anywhere else) is because I don’t have the money to pay for it. “But who has that kind of money? You can take a home loan no?” they will say. No….
The World is full of overbearing and nosy people who believe they exist for the sole reason of poking into others’ affairs and to enforce the standards of what they believe are the “accepted norms” of “society” on how to lead one’s life. Their primary weapon of choice is irritatingly repeated questions, like “What do…