New Delhi, May 24 -- One of the more interesting stories we have this week is on the village of Dharmaj in Anand, Gujarat, which has more than 120 Art Deco buildings that date back to the 1930s and '40s-that's a lot for a village where, even today, just about 11,000 people live.

Many of these homes are in various states of disrepair and-with 2025 being the 100th year of the Art Deco style of architecture-there are efforts to restore them, as Avantika Bhuyan reports. But editing Avantika's story reminded me of Tamil Nadu's Chettinad region, which is said to have more than 10,000 decaying Art Deco homes, built in the last century, and abandoned because the following generations have moved away or cannot afford to pay for their maintenance....