Sector 8 Noida

Rajesh Malhotra almost didn't buy that industrial plot in Sector 8, Noida. It was 2016, and every broker he spoke to kept pointing him toward the "hot" new sectors near the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway — Sector 128, Sector 150, places with glossy brochures and swimming pools on the cover. Sector 8 felt old by comparison. Narrow lanes, decades-old factories, a market that never seemed to sleep. His...