On several occasions, I wrote about how Park Street and its surroundings are going through a silent cultural degeneration. As a Brownigian optimist, I have no qualms in accepting the inevitable change which a few love to label as ‘the only constant. I have an augmented version of the story. For me, harmony is the only constant; coexistence is the only constant. This is what still makes Kolkata a liveable city, as my Messiah Anjan Dutt once wrote. Haripada, Mary Ann and Alibaba can live in the same locality despite any major strife. If any change signifies choosing something over the other, an evil over a lesser one, an imminent socio-economic disaster over an equilibrated identical existence, constantly attempting to get out of the comfort zone because there’s no limit to excel, I prefer not to take this route. I don’t adhere to a struggle which lets me down in the near term, doesn’t allow me to relish what I already have, and tires me when I am fifty because of its ephemerally i...