709 Words Article on Life in a Big City

Life in a big city like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, is very- expensive, complex and artificial yet exciting and full of thrills.

In every big town, housing problem is very keen. There is acute shortage of housing accommodation. You cannot get one small room for less than Rs. 1000 a month as rent. This one room you have to use as your drawing room, your bed roomy, your store, your guest room and as your kitchen unless you choose to cook and prepare our meals in the open, under the sky.

Half a dozen families are cramped and huddled together in a building which is hardly suitable for one family of a moderatesize. A man with three or four hundred rupees a month as income can never find a suitable house.

All his life, he must rot in a small tiny room, no better than a pigeon hole. He cannot dream of getting fresh air and sunshine, the greatest gifts of God. He and the members of his family are generally ailing. The doctor’s monthly bill is quite heavy. It is something inevitable.

Life is complex. It is artificial. People are materialistic. Money- making is the be-all and end-all of their life. The finer values of life receive little or no attention. There is no peace and calm in the life of the people. There is great hustle.

Everybody seems to be in a hurry. Life is full of worry, too. Everybody is so busy that he has no time to stand and stare. There is no hospitality, no neighbourliness and no fellow feeling.

Everybody is selfish. Every article of food that you get is adulterated. Milk, butter, oil and flour are difficult to get without adulteration. Big cities are cities of long distances. If you have to go from one part or locality to another, you must go by a bus or a taxi. You are daily put to a lot of expense on this score.

The roads are full of traffic especially in the morning and evening when the people go to and return from work. There is one long and unending line of cars, taxies, scooters and cycles and one long procession of pedestrians on every road.

There is one vast sea of humanity everywhere. Accidents are a thing of daily occurrence. A stranger to a big city has to be very careful about his movements while crossing a bazar or a road. He is apt to lose his bearings in the maze of bazars, buildings and roads.

Yet life in a big city has its thrills. There is no end to fashions and dainties. You come across men of all nationalities, speaking different languages, with different fashions and modes of dress. You come across ladies most richly dressed and glamorously made up.

There is no end to cinemas and houses of entertainment. You can see the best picture and a new picture everyday if you have money. You can attend lectures, see matches between foreign teams and roam about in the fashionable shopping centres.

Side by side with beauty gaiety, there is wretchedness and poverty. On the one hand they are numerous places of entertainment and recreation; palatial, air conditioned picture houses and aristocratic expensive hotels clubs.

But on the other hand, there are thousands of people who in dark and dingy quarter while there are others who cannot boasts- even a roof over their heads at night. The number of wretch homeless people, who lie along the pavements on both sides of the road at night, is legion.

There are museums, picture galleries and zoos for your amusement and entertainment. There are exhibitions, there are amusement parks and gardens. There are luxury hotels and ball- rooms. A day in the Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi, or the Taj Mahal Hole Mumbai, will be an epoch making event in your life.

You will find yourself in quite a different world. Men and women mix freely. There is no purdah and no social restraints in your way to talk to your friends of the opposite sex. In a city like Mumbai, you can go and enjoy yourself- in the Hyde Park.

Thus, life in a big city, though expensive and complex, is full of thrill and excitement.