India, Sept. 15 -- Some of us lean against these white columns for support, while waiting for, say, a friend. Some of us spit out aak-thoo at these. The columns constitute the signature sight of Connaught Place (CP). Ensconced in the capital's heart, CP is uniformly accessible to all corners of Delhi, drawing citizens from a variety of backgrounds. Like the rest of the megapolis, this place too has changed. Scores of landmark showrooms and restaurants have been replaced by new showrooms and restaurants-many times over. But CP continues to resemble the newly built Connaught Place of the 1940s that we sometimes come across on Instagram reels; the eerily silent clips stitched out of the footage from old documentaries. Amid this changing world,...