Prologue I visited the BMC Building market in Powai - this is a run down building built by the Municipal corporation for small businesses and shops. The vision was to build an equivalent of the Sim-Lim square in Singapore - when it was constructed, it had escalators, elevators and air-conditioned corridors. However, over the years, the escalators stopped working due to lack of maintenance, and leases expired and rentals fell rapidly during the Covid-19 pandemic, after which the air-conditioning broke down and recently one out of the two elevators also broke down. Today when I visited the place, it was stinking of human sweat (its high-summer season in Mumbai) and the lack of air-conditioning made it worse. The staircase was so dirty that I did not feel like taking it, so I took the lift, but as soon as I boarded the lift, I regretted my decision. The lift was occupied by 5 delivery runners, two of them carrying dairy and one of them carrying meat - the stench in the lift was even mor...