Essay on Bulldozing Is No Way To Build Up Cities
Don't they have a right to eke out a living by living in a city, earning honest bread by one kind of service or the other?
Don't they have a right to eke out a living by living in a city, earning honest bread by one kind of service or the other?
About some two hundred years ago Rousseau, the French philosopher said, "Go back to nature". The vision was prophetic. People did not see the wisdom in what Rousseau said then. They did the contrary.
At the end of the twentieth century mankind is involved in unprecedented experiment. Men are transforming themselves to an urban species. Cities are becoming our main habitat. In the entry-first century cities will decide the destiny of man.
Even today it is recongnised that India is a country of villages, of the 54.82 crore people, who constituted the 1971 population of India 43.90 crore or about 80 percent live in villages and 10.92 crore or 20 percent in cities and towns. It may therefore be safely remarked that India is a country predominantly with rural community.
India's commercialized Mumbai, is an open Mafia territory with more than two murders on an average daily. Open gang wars, extortion, kidnapping, sexual blackmail are the daily locals news, that are becoming too common to raise any protest.