roposed/tentative view from park Heights Apartments (subject to change), reads the fine print in a full-page ad for DLF Park Place, Gurgaon. This is just one among the many if-and-when ads that a reader of a newspaper finds. And DLF is one of the biggest - and most respected - builders in the country.

Driving to work, you could get to hear actor Akshay Kumar's voice on the car radio, mocking Paresh Rawal (Babu Bhaiya of the hit movie, Hera Pheri) for his audacity in trying to buy a house in Indirapuram, on the outskirts of Delhi. Babu Bhaiya asks the "Panauti", obviously Kumar, to shut up, as Chand Solitaire has very cheap 2-3 bedroom flats in Indirapuram. In reality, Kumar and Rawal probably don't have a clue that they have helped set up a development somewhere - without being paid for it.... more