Two Cities

In The end of night, Paul Bogard says that

"Though some complain that old Paris has become a museum or even that it's dead, I think it anything but, and I think that especially at night. What's kept alive is the opportunity to add your story to those countless stories before, even to add to your own story if you have been here in the past. Because so much of the old city has been preserved, you can come back to Paris and the night you walked years ago will still be here."

Compare that with Rana Dasgupta's
"My father's failure to revisit Delhi home was only a particular example of a general condition: no one, not even the young, could revisit the Delhi they had come from because it no longer existed"
in Capital.