India, March 23 -- By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD

It has been announced that a Heritage Museum is being proposed to be set up at our old Deputy Commissioner's Office, under the Central Government's Swadesh Darshan Scheme. This certainly seems like a very great and welcome idea if not for any other reason than that it is most likely to give a new lease of dignified existence to one of our most prominent heritage buildings.

A dignified existence, with good upkeep and some befitting utility, is exactly what every one of our many such structures is begging for, considering the fact that every one of them, without any exception, has a history behind it, that is linked closely with the history of our city itself.

The old DC Office building was ...