Living in Hope

THE INVERTED PYRAMID If society is to be properly built, we cannot begin at the top floor. We must begin at the foundations and work our way painstakingly upwards. Creativity from the Base Upwards If society is to be properly built, we cannot begin at the top floor. We must begin at the foundations and work our way painstakingly upwards. W hen Vikas Minar, the tallest modern building of Delhi was com­pleted, the newspapers reported that “the city’s twenty-one-storey building is ready.” The attention of the reader was thus focused on the twenty-first storey, although it was only after years of foundation-­laying, and floor-by-floor additions to the building that it was possible for the topmost storey to be built. This is the ‘inverted pyramid’ style of modern reporting, which offers the most eye-catching piece of infor­mation first, in order to rivet the attention of readers. It takes no ac­count