I visited Indore couple of weeks ago, to be precise the same day when Sehwag cracked a double ton in the One Day Cricket match against the West Indies. Indore seemed to just like Ahmedabad, Pune, Mumbai or Delhi. It had lost its originality. I was walking on the main road, near Bombay Hospital and I felt I am on the Pune Nagar Road, near the Airport, or near In Orbit Mall in Mumbai, or near EDM, New Delhi. It all seems to be the same. The more things change the more they become (remain ) the same.
Big wide roads, full of pot holes and dust. Abutting these roads, there are huge multiplexes which were replica of the ones which are seen in other cities. Box type structures with glass panels and Alicobond sheets on their facade. Big Bazar, Vishal Mega Mart, Nokia Priority Dealers, Adidas, Nike , Reebok, Cantabil... the list is endless. You simply cannot make out whether you are in Indore or Ahmedabad or Lucknow; it is all the same.
Blame it on our Town Planners who fail to show any sense of originality or Architects who blindly and without any shame keep on doing their copy paste works to build replica after replica. After few years we may not have any diversity left, rather its would be the same boring scenes all around, be it Mumbai, Delhi, Pune , Indore or Ahmedabad.
Big wide roads, full of pot holes and dust. Abutting these roads, there are huge multiplexes which were replica of the ones which are seen in other cities. Box type structures with glass panels and Alicobond sheets on their facade. Big Bazar, Vishal Mega Mart, Nokia Priority Dealers, Adidas, Nike , Reebok, Cantabil... the list is endless. You simply cannot make out whether you are in Indore or Ahmedabad or Lucknow; it is all the same.
Blame it on our Town Planners who fail to show any sense of originality or Architects who blindly and without any shame keep on doing their copy paste works to build replica after replica. After few years we may not have any diversity left, rather its would be the same boring scenes all around, be it Mumbai, Delhi, Pune , Indore or Ahmedabad.
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