Accepting change is always difficult. More so, when a stranger tries to change the way your home looks. So my heart was in my mouth as Dipika Singh pushed an antique statue from one corner to another. The fragile doll in the glass box seemed to be groaning in agony as she placed it in an adjacent corner. And why shouldn’t it? After all, it had just been dislodged from a corner it was occupying for the last 20 years.

Dipika Singh reorganises the furniture at writer Tunali Mukherjee’s Churchgate residence. Pic/Bipin Kokate