Year 2001, I was driving around in Sector 47, Chandigarh, looking for a friend’s house. After navigating a few streets on my scooter, I was able to locate her flat. We sat and had a chat over a cup of tea. I shared my concern about my inability to find a suitable home to settle down after my marriage, scheduled in a few months. I had been on a house hunt for quite some days. As I was posted in Chandigarh and my fiancé lived in another city, the responsibility of finding a home fell on me. At that time Sector 47 seemed to me the farthest edge of the city but my friend told me that new high-rise flats were coming up in the adjacent Sectors 48 and 49.

Encouraged by this new information, I decided to push my boundaries. I embarked on my Odyssean quest along the deserted road connecting Sector

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