Swantah Sukhaya
Introduction: The City That Outpaced Its Seasons
SECTION I: PRARAMBHA
1. Gurugram: Knowledge Must Always Have a Home
2. Colonial Gurugram: Empire and Experiments
3. From Independence to Industry: The Long Pause Before the Leap
SECTION II: PARIVARTAN
4. The Making of a Mirage
5. The Village Vanishes
6. The Gated Republic
7. Infrastructure as an Afterthought
8. The Dream and the Drift
9. From Millennium City to Machine City
10. When Change Became Loss
SECTION III: PATAN/PRAVAS
11. The Vanishing Soul
12. Gurgaon’s Lost Ecology
13. The City That Forgot to Breathe
14. Water, Water Nowhere – and Everywhere
15. The Lost Villages
16. From Rotis to Ready Meals: The Changing Taste
17. From Kanche to Cricket: The Lost Playgrounds
18. From Sadar to the Mall: The Changing Markets
19. The Paradox of an Educated City
20. The City That Forgot Its Guru
21. Reading Together: The Borrowed Books of Our Childhood
22. The Children of Glass Towers
23. The Vanishing Neighbourhood
24. Places of Worship: The Sacred and the Familiar
25. The Disappearing Courtyard
26. The Death of Evenings
27. The Family Doctor: When Medicine Was Personal
28. Thread by Thread: The Vanishing Darzi
29. The Fading Facades of Memory
30. The Women Who Held the City Together
31. Summing Up: The Mirage of Progress
SECTION IV: PRATIBIMBA
32. Reclaiming the Soul
33. Rediscovering Stillness in a Restless City
34. Reviving Compassion
35. Rebuilding Harmony: Finding the Middle Path
36. Rethinking: The Gurgaon We Can Still Build
A Personal Note
Gratitude
