India, Feb. 5 -- After superannuating from university a couple of years ago, I vacated my official accommodation on the campus and shifted to the house I had painstakingly built in a relatively upmarket locality of Amritsar. Open verdant spaces abounded on the campus where I lived for almost 30 years, but in our congested cities, such expansive tracts are hard to find. Luckily, in my locality, which came up recently as an extension of the existing one, there are a few empty stretches....