Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Ode to High-Rises, Gurgaon City Poetry by The Delhi Walla - November 3, 20200 Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The first time he saw a host of buildings that “almost touched the sky” was when he was just 18. He had gone to Calcutta from home in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, for an entrance exam in engineering. “I was overwhelmed to see the skyscrapers — some of them were 20 or 25 floors high — while travelling on a yellow taxi to my exam,” explains Indrajit Ghoshal, whose first impulse back then was to start counting the floors. In his early 30s, Mr Ghoshal, a “senior analyst” in a multinational, is now living in the city of high-rises. To be sure, Gurgaon, in the Greater Delhi Region, is no Manhattan. It’s not even