India, Dec. 3 -- 2025 is soon ending. The forthcoming 2026 will create its own anthology of fortunes and misfortunes. It will also mark a landmark's diamond jubilee.

The Millennium City sobriquet for Gurugram suggests as if the city came up only after the year 2000. Gurugram, in fact, dates back to the ancient times of Mahabharat. Consider the "guru" and "gram" constituents of the name: the city originated as a gram, or village, that was gifted by the Pandavas as gurudakshina to Guru Dronacharya. Today, however, the high-rises of contemporary Gurugram are so overwhelming that one forgets the city's timeless past. As well as the fact that this land of shopping malls and office towers has an unassuming old quarter, where the pace of life i...