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Carpet vs Built-up vs Super Built-up Area: An Extract from ‘How to Buy a House’

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Buying a house is not simply a monetary decision. It is important to connect with the house for you to be happy there. Sometimes just a window in the wrong place can make you uncomfortable. After considering all the above, what is most essential is your ability to negotiate! This

The Exhumation: An Excerpt from ‘The View from Kollam’

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The sun beat mercilessly down on the assembled crowd which had surrounded a house and its grounds. Over 300 people had thronged the site. To one side were parked two police jeeps and a van, with my car carefully parked in a shaded spot that diligent Sreedharan Pillai had found.

The Census and the Merchant Ship – A chapter from ‘The View from Kollam’

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The gangway was lowered in silence as the harbour launch that brought the collector, the DSP, his fellow officers, me and the tehsildar from the port to the large cargo ship at anchor some distance away bobbed around in the high swells. […] As we climbed up the narrow gangway