On a Monday afternoon in October, when her two sons weren’t home, 51-year-old S Mangala set out for the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) head office on a BMTC bus, clutching her bag close. She had made the journey dozens of times, but today a rush of thoughts flooded over her as she crossed Kanteerava Studio, the hallowed ground where Kannada film icon Rajkumar was laid to rest in 2006. In 1982, her father had given her a parcel of land not far from here in Nandini Layout. The family could only afford to build a sheet-roofed house, where her children, Hemanth and Karthik, grew up, the elder one studying Mechanical Engineering and the younger, Interior Design. Bengaluru in the 90s was caught in the inescapable rhythms of development and…