At the end of the day, Rolly, it is not the Hafeez Contractors but the Khooda hafeez gods in the form of Pawar and Thackray who transformed the city. We have no infrastructure to speak of courtesy of mister ten billion Swiss dollar 1980's CM Pawar. He vacuumed us clean. As Defence bully, he would have pilfered a million acres of army cantonment had the Press had not made a rare expose. The Thackray clan used fifty cent hit-men to murder mill owners into submission. They are now the biggest owners of expensive turf in Worli and Bandra. Reliance and Hiranadani are very much a part of the mob. They could, if they chose to, level a city of two storey tenements and rebuild for the rich, the middle and the dispossed: but that is not fast money. eric.