The value of a whale as a carbon sink must be the worst moral / best economical framing of a whale's life. As a consequentialist and supporter of animal rights, I am all for using markets as the least worst example to help out of our ethical misadventures.
This insightful article highlights Bhopal's untapped potential and the need for a collective shift in civic attitudes. From neglected infrastructure to traffic issues, the author emphasizes the transformative impact of addressing seemingly small problems. A city with rich cultural heritage deserves the effort to restore its charm.
Thank you for your article Dr. Tarun. The mention of Bhopal picqed my interest in reading the article more carefully as I had an opportunity to drive a Smart City engagement there in 2019-20. I love Bhopal as it was my escape from Mumbai once a week. While the concerns that you raised apply to just about any place in India. The neglect is so ubiquitous that we have come to terms with it. It's like, a typical Indian is grown insensitive to these inadequacies, and tends to filter these out and distinguish places on other factors of merit. It's just that. We have accepted it as a 'fait accompli'. And anything that has turned in a norm would never galvanize administration in action to correct it. Despite having no dearth of funds and competence, the neglect continues to ruin the infra aesthetics rampantly. Bhopal smart City has already installed high tech apparatuses like ICCC ( Integrated Command Control Centre and ITMS ( Integrated Traffic Management Centre).
Disfiguring urban landscape with flex banners, meandering bovine kine, non functional fountains, encroached roads has all just ceased bothering us. We are so acclimatized to it that we gleefully surrender ourselves to a corrupt system that goes unquestioned.
Civic conscience and respect for rules is pretty 'uncool' in the minds of almost everyone. Driving on wrong side is a statement of one's bravado.
Times are changing but not rapid enough.
I wonder, like smart cities and SEZ, could we have a few model towns as lighthouse urban spaces where we actually implement standard civic behaviour and then scale it up across states like a seamless propagation of urban amenity standard.
The value of a whale as a carbon sink must be the worst moral / best economical framing of a whale's life. As a consequentialist and supporter of animal rights, I am all for using markets as the least worst example to help out of our ethical misadventures.
This insightful article highlights Bhopal's untapped potential and the need for a collective shift in civic attitudes. From neglected infrastructure to traffic issues, the author emphasizes the transformative impact of addressing seemingly small problems. A city with rich cultural heritage deserves the effort to restore its charm.
Thank you for your article Dr. Tarun. The mention of Bhopal picqed my interest in reading the article more carefully as I had an opportunity to drive a Smart City engagement there in 2019-20. I love Bhopal as it was my escape from Mumbai once a week. While the concerns that you raised apply to just about any place in India. The neglect is so ubiquitous that we have come to terms with it. It's like, a typical Indian is grown insensitive to these inadequacies, and tends to filter these out and distinguish places on other factors of merit. It's just that. We have accepted it as a 'fait accompli'. And anything that has turned in a norm would never galvanize administration in action to correct it. Despite having no dearth of funds and competence, the neglect continues to ruin the infra aesthetics rampantly. Bhopal smart City has already installed high tech apparatuses like ICCC ( Integrated Command Control Centre and ITMS ( Integrated Traffic Management Centre).
Disfiguring urban landscape with flex banners, meandering bovine kine, non functional fountains, encroached roads has all just ceased bothering us. We are so acclimatized to it that we gleefully surrender ourselves to a corrupt system that goes unquestioned.
Civic conscience and respect for rules is pretty 'uncool' in the minds of almost everyone. Driving on wrong side is a statement of one's bravado.
Times are changing but not rapid enough.
I wonder, like smart cities and SEZ, could we have a few model towns as lighthouse urban spaces where we actually implement standard civic behaviour and then scale it up across states like a seamless propagation of urban amenity standard.