There was nothing unusual about the apartment. “Jyotirmay”, as named by its builder, an old Bengali babu, it was located in the suburbs of North West Delhi. The 90’s building consisted of several blocks, with each block having 6 flats - three on either side of a small central porch (for the want of calling it anything else) and a parking. Asphalted pavements dotted with tall trees, a small children’s park, it made a pretty picture. The ground floor flat 01 at Block C was occupied by the Gupta’s and Flat 02 by their archrivals the Reddy’s. Flat 05 & 06 on the second floor had been converted to a single penthouse by Mr. Jiten Shah. While Flat no 04 was recently vacated, Flat 03 was the residence of the Palakkad Maami - Ambujam. She & her husband, Ramachandran Mama (the dear old man who had faithfully served the Tata’s for 25 long years and now post retirement was dutifully serving his wife), had come to Delhi when their son got transferred here. Within few months...
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