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Walk and let walk | Jul 24th 2007

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A 35-year-old woman walked horizontally out of the seventh floor around 10:30 am. At around 2 pm, a man and a woman, both in their late-30s, leapt from the other side of the same building.

Walk across to the building in Lucknow where Uttar Pradesh’s legislators live, and you’ll never have to walk back. Never. Walk. Walk as if the earth was flat, as if these mountains of claustrophobia called buildings didn’t exist, walk. An entire city’s fears come to an end on the terrace of one single building - skyscrapers are meant to fall off from, to reach the top, to never again have to climb any building, to never again have to alight from any flight of stairs. Any.

Never.

Walk.


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  1. शहर को अर्बन प्लानरों की नजर से देखें हम तो ठेठ अपनी नजर डालते हैं। इसलिए जब शिवम ने इमारतों वाले शहर के विषय में लिखा कि आत्‍महत्‍या का मसला - सातवें माले से कूद पड़ना- खुदकशी नहीं है ये तो शहर का मिजाज है- किसी शहरी

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Shivam Vij is a writer and journalist based in New Delhi.

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