Plot No 36, Sundar Nagar No More

 Plot no 36 was built after we started living in our house. I remember the owner, a sharp old man coming and overseeing the house construction. Over the years many neighbours came and lived there - first Mr Venkatrama Reddy, IAS whose dog Jogi was a major source of concern for us because the ball would fly over the wall and it would not let us near it. They were a quiet lot. There were some bachelors who would study for IAS in the front rooms and they would go to St Theresa's to play TT. Then our friend Venu and his family stayed for a long time (his father did not much like us I feel). For a brief period during early 2000s when Ram was reconstructing our house we shifted there - me on the ground floor and Ram on the first until this house was redone. Then there was one MLA type guy with a gunman etc who was a bit of a pain but thankfully they left. There was one young family that stayed and would not vacate for a long time - a fighter cock wife. And then Ramana garu from Singareni who was from the owner's family who lived here for a long time. 

Until they sold off the property to a builder and the entire green plot with a lovely bungalow came down last week. It's a violent process.

 

There was a tree in front of the blue sheets - now - not there!

First they quietly chopped off the tree in front of the house. In Pune they take these very seriously but here the government itself chopped off some 200 trees on Necklace Road for the eFormula races so who cares. My colony secretary saw it and said they complained but nothing can be done - the GHMX people said they will penalise the builder - in Pune they shut down the site for months if they cut down a tree.

Trucks lined up for loading at night

Then went about demolishing the house. While demolishing the house they pushed some massive part which fell over our wall and broke it. It could have been a dangerous thing - luckily no one was hurt. They said they will build it by the next day, the next week and finally built it yesterday.

Shobhs, Anjali and I went away for a few days when the loading was going on. One night at Beauty Green and then one night at Mythily's. Anjali stayed with her cousins.

Coming on the back of the post by Sadhana - yes, Hyderabad is changing. Sundar Nagar is changing. And we better change with them.