It is the story of a city that has learned to garland decay, to wrap ruin in national colours, to celebrate memory after abandoning responsibility. The remains of the Cotton Tree, decked in the green, white, and blue for Independence Day, now stand as a monument not only to history, but to neglect. It is the perfect civic metaphor: a …
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