By Durga Chakravarty Noida 25 August : “A family who eats together stays together”.Residents of Aster-2 in Emerald Court, Noida, were living up to the old maxim even as they counted down the minutes until the moment that the two illegally constructed Supertech Towers, just nine metres from their house will be destroyed in an controlled explosion.
On a Thursday night, as the sun was setting over the towers that were ablaze with ferocity and the family members parked their worries outside and gathered together to eat bread pakoras, kathi rolls and danced away their fears in a collective challenge to the rogues next door.
“Mental divergence is extremely important.
If you’re living constantly with one or more issues you could fall into depression.If you take a break, listen to music, talk with people eating and chatting it aids in getting your mind off of it,” said a resident who is the importer of railway components from Russia.
Get the mooziest! They did during the Aster-2 women danced to the beat of dhol and foot-tapping Bollywood tracks.
The older men were quiet and speculated on what might transpire in the aftermath of the August 28 demolition of the 32-storey Apex and 29-storey Ceyane honeycomb with 915 flats, destined to be buried in the next 72 hours.
The wreckers, namely’master blasters’ (and not of the Sachin Tendulkar variety) of South Africa’s Jet Demolition and the Mumbai-based Edifice Engineering, will ignite more than four tons of explosives that are buried in the 7,000 tunnels that have been drilled, which can reach 15 kilometers, inside towers that were deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court almost a year ago.
Meenu Rana, the administrator nominated by Aster-2’s Nomin idea for the evening party was to encourage unity and fight the ambers of panic in the apartment block of 11 floors that is now sparsely and largely uninhabited.
“Everybody is stressed out,” Rana said.”So I thought, why not take a break and relax ourselves.Stress will not bring anything to the table.It was crucial for everyone to dance and enjoy to let stress go for a short period of time,” she added.
As the ‘pawwri’ reached an extent and the dancing got intense The usual shouts for selfies drowned out the sound system in anticipation of the first sunrays of sunshine in 11 years to reflect on Aster-2 following the demolishment of the towers.
And what’s the reason to overlook the return of healthy signals for mobile phones?
Emerald Court’s “Last Tango” was completely different in spirit from the Marlon Brando-starring film with the same title, as the party at Aster-2’s lobby was packed of joy, laughter and Asterix-like defiance against a common foe.
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