Gupta bought this house in Campa Cola Society's B Y Apartments in 2001, nearly 13 years ago, for Rs 95 lakh. His daughter Mahika (15) has spent most of her life here while his son Viraj just got back from boarding school to find all his stuff packed. It is them that Gupta is most worried about. "The entire documentation of their life is in this house," he says.
Gupta tears up at the sight of the lovely spacious balcony bordered by potted plants. Here he loved to read the paper every Sunday morning while his family was asleep. Gupta remembers throwing many of his two kids' birthday parties here. "Where will I find a place like this?" asks the concerned father, excusing himself for a sip of water.
Each of the plants in the balcony was carefully purchased during their various trips. "We have to leave them behind," he tells Mahika. There are many things they are leaving behind— the fragile white lamps in Mahika's room, the ornate doorknobs made of ornate Rajasthani moulds, the puja shelves from where the gods have disappeared.
Since May, the Guptas started gradually packing away. "We didn't entertain much as there was only the dining table in the living room." Mahika is in the tenth standard and the last seven months of packing have made life difficult for her. "It is all stressful. I could not study," says Mahika, who remembers her eleventh birthday, when the family had projected a movie for friends in their spacious living room.
Gupta then points to a little blue nook behind the living room showcase. It was his son Viraj's little corner. He would keep his books here and there was a computer table nearby which are now sitting in cartons. In the false ceiling of this nook, there is a gap right now where pigeons have now found a home. "Should I even bother telling these guys to fix it?" Gupta wonders aloud. "Leave it. What's the point," says Mahika.
The family has given up any hope of relief and have started speaking of their home in the past tense. "My wife is rationalizing. She says we will consider it as having paid 12 years rent," says Gupta. Incidentally, the first question one of the packers who came to his house asked was, "How much are you getting for the house?" Gupta could only laugh in return.
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