The Writer’s Flight

  As someone said, getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is the best ever! Old age can be golden years for silver citizens provided their holistic health and well-being is taken care of. With positive ageing, life could actually begin at sixty. Namrata Kohli  When Ramanan Rajaraman retired from a leading PSU in Delhi, he decided to move to his gated community in Bengaluru. But then he and his wife read about the senior living community within the same city and opted to stay there and put their regular apartment in Bengaluru for rent. Says Rajaraman, “In a regular gated community, one has to totally take care of the day-to-day requirements. Community activity is less and interaction with neighbors, limited. Whereas the Senior Living community is a small community where practically everyone knows each other, and this creates a pleasant atmosphere. The facility in the Senior Living Community consists of dining, housekeeping, wel...

  I see romance a bit differently- and the lenses through which I view romance is one of 'realism' with a dash of idealism and a pinch of romanticism. It is not when someone gazes into your  eyes... it is when you are both looking together in the same direction… As someone said - “Don’t look for a firecracker, look for a fireplace” ...  "Fireplace over firework" represents the decision of choosing a consistent, persevering relationship similar to a comfortable fireplace over a temporary, hazardous relationship looking like a firework.  But first let’s try to define what is romance and falling in love. The first question that always comes to my mind is why it is falling, why not rising. It seems with all humility when we submit, and when the flow of relationship is no longer intercepted by "I, Me, Myself' and issues of ego and selfish pride, then it is true love. Then why is that that we speak about romance as an indulgent selfish emotion. Romance canno...

Demand For Luxury Apartments Has Picked Up Since the Pandemic, Say Real Estate Industry Executives. (File Photo) Namrata Kohli New Delhi When the Golf Island luxury apartments project was launched in Dwarka, Southwest Delhi, in June 2023, more than 50 percent flats were sold within six months of the launch of the project. Demand still continues and the capital values have appreciated 20-30 per cent since then.  When The Anant Raj Corporation (TARC) opened its bookings for the Kailasa project in Central West Delhi’s Kirti Nagar, thirty percent of the inventory got absorbed within 72 hours. What was common in these projects was that they are both upscale lifestyle gated communities, right within the city limits providing an option to residents of Delhi to stay within the capital and not move to the neighbouring suburbs. Well-heeled homebuyers are not content just with a lifestyle home – they want to live in the city. “I know a lot of middle-aged buyers now preferring to stay wit...