Today, I received the news from a friend, Mr Karthikumaran Nadarajan, that all the wooden houses along Jalan Sanders were demolished and razed to the ground. All that was left were the stone steps and stone pillars. I am sure that the feeling on the part of Mr Karthikumaran and myself as well as all the readers who were borned and grew up in that place, is one of total sadness and disappointment. It was as if a part of our past has been cut off from our present selves. This is an inevitable development and there is very little anyone of us can do to stop such changes, especially when we are no longer staying around that area. This happens to a lot of other places too. I am sure other railway quarters around the country are facing or have faced similar fate. The only consolation is that I managed to record our own "history" in my blog before it was destroyed. Below are pictures of before and after the destruction. Thank you, Mr Karthikumaran, for the pictures of what remains after the demolition.
