The Red Carpet; by Lavanya Sankaran.

Very true to life portrayal of a town the writer probably knew well long before it became the "IT" place to be, and expanded at exponential rates. Lavanya Shankaran gives a little piece of the life of the town in old times changing to new with whiffs of arrivals of new people and of expat generation returning or sojourning from abroad for visits or more. It is a gentle change in the old establishments of old colonies, where people have lived in cetain traditional ways for long, through colonial times carrying out the older ways and adapting to new colonial ones, until now it is yet another change, like a whiff of something else carried on a breeze through the muslin curtains of an old bungalow.