"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another." -Winston Churchill. The heresy of typical Indians has changed the orthodox mindset of building and designing a house to live in it. A ramification of this is that houses are nowadays counted as a transitory asset.

The idea of buying a house that will last a lifetime has gradually vanished. The buzzword nowadays is 'investment'.