India, Oct. 26 -- In the older colonies of the city there are still lanes where the verandah is in daily use. It is found at first light, when the elder of the house brings a chair out through a gate welded 40-50 years ago and sets it down within speaking distance of a neighbour who has done the same across a waist-high wall. Most of these elders remember Partition, the displacement that followed, and the slow building of a house from very little. They regard the house with a pride that has been earned. The verandah is where that pride faces the street, which is why they sit in it. The plots under them are now worth many times the houses standing on them, and in most of these families the house will be pulled down and rebuilt soon after t...