A colonial ‘high road’ that has bypassed growth

The High Road, once a symbol of Chittoor’s colonial legacy, is now a crammed, congested artery through which vehicles struggle to navigate. The road has become emblematic of the town’s socioeconomic milieu — a place caught between a distant past and the need for growth — and the decades of simmering frustration among those living along this ‘thoroughfare’ is inescapably real, finds K. Umashanker