Growing like ginger-1
All citizens of India are very well aware that these are not some random pictures of India’s major metro cities. These represent regular life of the citizens of these cities. Water shortage, water logging, traffic jams, unhygienic colonies inhabited by poor, unplanned and illegal constructions, encroachment of public spaces, dangerously hanging electric supply wires, narrow lanes where fire tenders cannot reach in case of fire accident, stray animals posing risk of peoples’ life, are some of the common characteristics of Indian urbanization. Numerous tier 2 towns and cities in India carry distinguished history, culture and traditions within themselves. However mostly unplanned and unmindful growth has made these cities look alike. Today one would struggle to distinguish Kashi, Patna, Bareilly, Moradabad, Aligarh, Agra, Panipat, Hissar, Jhansi, Praygraj (Allahabad) from each other. They all are equally cacophonous, raging, dirty, ill, concretized and mostly unlivable. The r...