Har Ghar Chup Chaap Se Yeh Kehta Hai..
‘Har ghar chup chaap se yeh kehta hai, ki andhar usme kaun rehta hai’, ! These legendary lines from an old advertisement crafted by a maverick ad man who recently passed on, was the first thing that came to mind when I went past the building that used to house the Montessori that I went to, till about seven years ago. One of the few surviving incredibly beautiful art deco structures with a lovely garden and a park right across the street, I was dismayed to find the building being torn down. As with most old homes in that locality, the space will soon be replaced with a concrete and glass monstrosity; a building that would wipe away traces of the joyous moments spent in that house. While I have no stake in that space, the loss felt deeply personal to the little girl in me, who’d found a sense of belonging there . If a time machine did truly exist, a trip to fifteen years ago would take you back to 2010, the year that the barely five year old me stepped into a...