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...before his room was a gallery  that opened into a small terrace and he spent time studying there,  his comfortable sofa  and wood grill  next to which was placed a high stool on which he would  perch to survey the entire  circular street 

There was just one  way to get into the street,  it could be defined as a rough road  not wrongly,  it seemed as if  one was moving upwards  and right in front of you appeared  the marvelous looking haveli ancient  and presented to the  great grandfather  , the ancestral haveli was surrounded with  small and big cottages  to end at the only road  that lead into the street,  mostly the houses belonged to anaar s clan, his ammi used to tell him  that earlier both sides of the old haveli were  vacant  to not allow  clusters of cottages to spoil its looks but amaar s grandfather  later  gave away the  surrounding lands to the clan to settle down there and  very soon  a colony of close relatives   grew up 

The special thing about the circular street was that a high  platform was  built in its middle and an old  banyan oak tree grew in its  center  with  the  soft area round it, come summer and  the cool shade  was cast in all directions   , come rains and  it gave  dry shelter to all  , other times   its coolness  enveloped the  cottages