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Last March a client of mine, a schoolteacher building her first house on a 30x40 plot, called me from the brick yard. Her mason wanted red bricks. The supplier kept pushing the grey ones. She'd been standing there for forty minutes and nobody could give her a straight answer.
Walk past any construction site that sat idle through a monsoon. The column starter bars poking out of the plinth tell the whole story. The ones left bare have turned a flaky orange-brown, scale peeling off in layers. The ones painted that dull brick-red colour? Still solid underneath.
It usually starts small. A faint yellowish patch on the bedroom ceiling. Paint bubbling behind the almirah that nobody noticed for months. A musty smell in one corner of the living room that no amount of airing out seems to fix.
When buying or building a home, you've probably heard advice like 'Never buy a south-facing house,' 'Keep the kitchen in the southeast,'' or 'Sleep with your head towards the south.'' These recommendations come from Vastu Shastra, India's ancient architectural system that has guided home design for centuries.
A decade ago, telling someone in Chandigarh that Airport Road in Mohali would one day carry apartment prices touching ₹15,000 per square foot would have earned a polite laugh. Airport Road was fields. Zirakpur was where the highway traffic slowed down. New Chandigarh didn't exist as an address anyone used.
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