As someone born and brought up here and someone who now earns a living doing commercial real estate in Trivandrum , I will admit upfront, I am biased. But I am also someone who tries to keep his eyes and ears open. I travel the city, speak to people on the ground, keep an eye on the relevant news, watch how neighborhoods change, how deals unfold. And what I sense now is this, we are at the beginning of something that generations before us could only dream of. I have been watching Trivandrum with curiosity for years. I know it reasonably well. For the longest time, it felt like a city caught between its past and its potential. Beautiful, calm, a bit laid back and not fully awake. That’s changing slowly, quietly, but definitely. I am not writing this as an urban planner, a policy expert, or someone with access to insider knowledge. I am just a common man, with both feet on the ground, trying to piece together what I see and feel around me. So this is just a common man’s perspective. If y...