The pucca LCM of growth
the pucca lcm, or lowest common multiple, of growth is a burnt-red rectangular object. It is 10 inches long, 5 inches broad and 3 inches wide. Wrought in clay dug out of prime agricultural land, it is born in a mould and achieves a speedy maturity in a furnace. Thereafter it is laden on a truck. It then migrates from the informal economy in which it was manufactured, @ Rs 900 to Rs 1,700 per thousand.
It then lives the rest of its inanimate life bolstering the built-up universe. According to a 1995 Building Materials & Technology Promotional Council study paper, it must be packed 225 to a square metre in a foundation, laid out 178 to a square metre in an office plinth and 221 to a square metre in a laboratory plinth. Ready to tumble out of a heritage ruin at a touch, it gives palaces their awe-inspiring fa