For as long as I can remember it remained vacant with overgrown shrubs. A year or so ago, someone I know bought the land and built a superb house for himself on 1/4th of the land.
This snap shows the side-view of the home as seen from the terrace of our home - the front
of the home looks even better. I did have a snap of the front, but unable to locate it now.
He marked out another 1/4th of the land for his brother (to build a house in the future) and
put up the remaining land for sale - he happens to be in the real-estate business. A family
living some 2kms away bought 5 cents (100 cents = 1 acre) of this land to build a home, since
their current home is quite off the main road and not exactly very accessible.
Since the parents were working in North India, it was their young son (21 years old) who was supervising the construction activity. The work was progressing fast and the foundation was done. Since monsoon set in, he decided to wait a bit before going further with putting up the walls and doing the roof concreting.
A view of the construction with the foundation complete, as seen from our yard.
The young guy had just finished his Diploma and had recently joined work some months ago.
I am sure he must have been eagerly waiting for the house to be completed as early as possible and to move in into the new residence. However, fate had other plans in mind. While riding pillion with a friend on a motorbike, they were hit by a bus, leading to the young man's death. The friend riding the bike has serious injuries, but atleast lucky to be alive.
I don't know about other countries, but in most parts of India, such a sequence of events
would immediately lead to the plot being labelled unlucky/jinxed, which is what happened
in this case also. Construction activity has been abandoned & over the past many months, plants/weeds have grown all over the place to such an extent that from our yard, it is no
longer possible to see the foundation.
I was talking to a friend last week and he was telling that the family plans to dispose of the
plot as-is, since they have no intention to setup home in a plot that they consider jinxed &
which brought them misfortune. And since others would also consider the plot as ill-fated,
I don't see anyone turning up to buy it either.
The quirks of fate are strange and unexplainable. Till one fine day, the place was bustling
with activity, a dream was in the making and then things change so fast that no one wants
to have anything to do with the whole thing.
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