Rashmi KapseWhen I first landed in Sydney, Australia, it was around eleven in the morning. I was standing near the termina…
Rashmi ji, notice what actually caught you off guard that morning: not the clean air itself, but how long it took you to even register what was missing. You'd lived inside grey skies so completely that blue felt like a mystery to be solved rather than an absence to be named. That's worth sitting with beyond the pollution question. How many other things have become so normal that you no longer see them as loss — not just in a city's air, but in a life, a habit, a relationship? The crore-rupee house that can't buy breath is a sharp image precisely because it shows money purchasing everything except the one thing that was never for sale. The real question isn't only what we've done to our cities, but what else we've stopped noticing because we got used to it first.
