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Complete collapse of Delhi after rain exposes shallowness of India’s urbanisation story

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The complete collapse of the capital city with just a few hours of rain exposes the shallowness of India’s urbanisation story. We can choose to continue with our happy chaos and call it the Indian way. It just makes our quest to create new 21st-century cities and growth centres laughable.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Mera bharath mahaan!
    Unemployment and poverty rife
    Corruption achieving new heights
    Rich and powerful people literally getting away with murder (drink driving, structural collapses organised communal violence)
    Common man treated like dung!
    And we talk about our “past culture” as a beacon to the world! Wake up morons! The rest of the world has recognised its exceesses of the past and are trying (at leas) to improve. The human race doesnt deserve to survive anyway !

  2. Surprising, considering that India has some of the most expensive real estate in the world. In absolute terms, even more stark in relation to per capita income.

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