Season's gift. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] So consoling to the eyes. It’s as if some secret Santa finally took pity on us hapless citizens slow-dying through smog, smoke and dust. And one late night he quietly descended on earth, at this spot in Gurgaon in the Delhi region, decking up a bunch of mall-facing trees with dainty pink flowers. Or, perhaps it is that time of the year. The floss-silk trees, or the kurrayya, are in blossom. Nobody, however, is noticing the lovely flowers along a pavement outside the Ambience Mall’s driveway. Not the security guards who are too preoccupied with checking the incoming cars for bombs. Not the people inside those cars. While the traffic on the adjacent National Highway 8