India, Jan. 30 -- It is gone. The shaving stall is no longer here. Also gone is the dense hedge of bougainvilleas that roofed over it, turning a dusty stretch of paved footpath into an unexpectedly beautiful site. On a cold, grey evening, the scene in central Delhi's Chelmsford Road is unrecognisable. Blue construction barricades line the dug-up browned earth. A labourer in yellow hamlet is standing beside a yellow excavator. Arms on hips, he says a flyover is being built. If so, the consolation is that a small, human-scaled world that stood here has been erased to raise something grander, more utilitarian, all for our greater common good. The stall has already been celebrated on this page. Now, its passing has to be recorded. That said, pa...