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Cities are a melting pot they say...i ask of wht? Of the people? Of the cultures? 

They have become a melting pot of emotions, of peoples faith,of people's believes. Many people come to the urban or metro cities with high aspirations leaving their loved ones back home just to earn a 'city bread'? Does this bread taste as sweet as what is made at home? Man does not live by the bread alone. People who already live in the cities have been subjected to harsh realities of life and eventually realize their emotions getting melted in the pot.

I like a line from a song from one of the hindi movies....the song goes...'Sone ki rahon mein sone ki jagah nahin'....when one looks at the double sided meaning of the same line one can understand how difficult it is for a beginner to establish himself/ herself in the city. The same 'sone ki raah' attracts the rural junta into the 'dreamy' world of cities. Cities are the future of India no doubt, but this future has to have a vision, a plan. Not many cities in India have a defined planned growth, leading to what is called as an urban sprawl. 

No one wants to be in a traffic jam, in a suffocated crowd, in a long queues to get there...Ultimately these long lines of people lead them nowhere….There has to be a system to maintain and streamline all of these. The problem arises with the system itself. ‘C-is-teem’ed with healthy malpractices which are a regular and are performed as some kind of ritual to the ultimate ‘deity’ to bless us …..for wht….a bloody sign, a mark of consent??? 

I would like to mention a brilliant graphic explaining the condition of the citizen in almost all the cities with the way the ‘c-is-teem’ (read system) strips people.  

 If you drop a frog into a saucepan of a very hot boiling water, it will desperately try to pop out. Once you put the same frog in a warm water, and gradually and slowly increase the heat provided to it, the same frog will try to adjust and eventually adjust to the ‘changes’ happening all around him. Each one of us can easily identify with such frog where we ‘daraoo’fy ourselves into this rising heat of the ‘torch bearers’ of the system. 

We are knowingly hiberanting to the whole issue and thus hampering the development of our  see tee zzzzzzzz.