Runway to Remember: How a Terminal Taught US to Stay

By shanmugam vinayagam

Runway to Remember: How a Terminal Taught Us to Stay
Some places are meant for departure. Others demand to be remembered.
Lakshmipur was supposed to be another development project-a gateway to progress. But when plans for a new airport emerge, buried stories resurface, revealing more than infrastructure blueprints. Beneath the concrete and forecasts lie displaced voices, forgotten communities, and a reckoning that challenges the very meaning of public spaces.
Bureaucrat Arya Iyer arrives to oversee the airport's revival, expecting policy debates and technical roadblocks. Instead, she faces resistance-from corporate forces, political maneuvering, and the people whose lives are quietly written between the margins of every master plan. As opposition grows and truths unravel, Arya must decide whether to follow protocol or redefine the idea of progress itself.
Through compelling storytelling and immersive narratives, Runway to Remember explores the complex intersection of infrastructure, memory, and resistance. It asks the question: Can development serve everyone, or does it inevitably erase those left off the blueprint?
A deeply moving novel about power, place, and the undeniable truth that some spaces refuse to disappear.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F4NMPDXD
• ISBN13: 9798319170033
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"