A tale of urban decay

 Plunder story without any problem in any city..." The big story is that reflections on disaster and dreadfulness stories are true to all the cities where most of the people rush to fulfill their unfulfilled dreams in the 21st century Nalanda, Hampi and Taxila.

These cities inescapably ellipsis in every country where ellipsing is a reaction edifying and economic pattern juggles up ideas of the forward-looking calculating artificially, dress-down super-rich tech expert, stylish nerd, eye pulling ultra luxurious restaurants with fabulous dishes on their carte du jour, and, for those with a political-sociological bent of wits, a fabulous unruffled artificially liberal-tolerant ridge, an inheritance of ages the cities were the worldwide epicenter of thriving supremacists. 

Now cities are the placard examples of urban decay in India and other parts of the world. Media is flooded with detailed stories of city rots, a pandemic of street crimes, use of narcotics and drugs, shabbily dressed and zombie-like drugs and sex addicts but pretend to be liberal, tolerant, cool secular and modern, empty ghostly malls and old buildings and a flood of people staring for freebies and generosities.

Millions and billions of people are addicted to narcotics and drugs to get short-lived but splendid highs. Children boost and introduce their sex partners without any shame and nervousness. Children come home after narcotic and drug sessions. They feel pride to rebel against their parents and seniors.

When the space is encroached by a drug-crime and encroachment problems. The justice system is almost non-functional or kind to wrong-doers, affluent, white-collar cool citizens, and business class try to leave the place and the number of worthless freeloaders, beggars, drug addicts, criminals etc swell.

Branded food stores are shut. Luxury retail chains also try to flee. Businesses try to find new addresses. After March 2020, when the Covid lock-down hit the world, cities suffered the most. However, the tendency and attraction of freeloading benefits crossed all the limits.

Pandemic-period remote work system got acceptance, and the office buildings, railway land, temple land, public land and parking spaces and vacant land were encroached on by illegal migrants and intruders. This system pushed many working people out of the system. Some left for their native places. Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native" type story.

All this did not stop the march of ruthless slayers. The unstoppable march of illegal intruders, criminals and land grabbers and authorities and the helpless police due to much-hyped human rights and their peddlers, soft and lethargic justice system give immense power to these nihilist bosses. For them, poverty, backwardness, illiteracy and incompetency are status symbols to boast with pride and fanfare.

All are worried and scared of this urban rot. However, the worry is only limited to the drawing room chat. Nationalist right-wingers are haunted and bullied by the judiciary, right activists, and left-winger toolkit branded as inclusive liberal and tolerant. The celebrated liberals blame the inequalities, the meritorious hard-working class and the political and social system of rich and poor divide and gap. In return, they advocates more free-loading schemes, goodbye to merit and talent to give employment to these huge vote banks.

The urban decay is like 'Cocktown' of "The Hard Times" by Charles Dickens.