The Glass House: A Year Of Our Days

What makes a house a home?

College professor M.B. and his designer wife, Roshni, are a yuppie couple living in the ever-expanding, smog-choked city of Delhi. They have finally achieved their dream of buying their own apartment in an up-and-coming builder’s complex in Gurgaon. The problem is, it looks like it will be “up and coming” for quite some time.

As delays mount, so do their troubles. M.B. suspects that Roshni’s growing distance and disaffection have less to do with the stalled apartment and more to do with Rocky, the charismatic son of their Punjabi landlord. Meanwhile, their landlord—“Fat-bum” Khanna—keeps inserting himself into their lives, offering unsolicited advice on navigating the maze of bank paperwork, loan agreements, and construction jargon. Irritating as it is, M.B. realizes he may actually need the shrewd businessman’s help.

Further complications arise in the form of M.B.’s NRI brother, Tubluda, ongoing tensions with an overstepping tenant, and his own growing fascination with Malati Patel, the glamorous and sharp-tongued “resident bitch” of the college staffroom.

A darkly comic take on Delhi—its chaos, contradictions, and characters—The Glass House explores the fragile ideals of urban happiness and the costs that come with chasing them.