@bhaumikgowande Bengaluru’s did the same mistake like mumbai. But hyd and chennai kinda got the sorted . I wouldn’t say bets of city but far better then the so called richest municipality. I don’t even see them picking any trash . The trash that’s spread is unimaginable. Mumbai got so used to it
@guptavinay91@dtrips Trust me once u start living in other cities you will know where we stand . We have our own issues but that’s in selective area and I also feel it’s because we are cynical and we question it and we shouldn’t stop. Standards are higher 🙃
@sandesh_samant Also mumbai street food has lost its charm and taste for a while . I came to mumbai after 8 years none of the street food I enjoyed taste good now .
I was just in Mumbai, and I have to give them credit for the progress they’re making on infrastructure. The new Aqua Line metro is phenomenal. But the amount of work India still has to do on basic cleanliness and sanitation and it is hard to understand until you see it yourself. Would love for more westerners to go just to understand how wealthy they are, but that's a different point.
Mumbai is completely surrounded by water, yet there are almost no places where people can actually enjoy the water. The beaches are filled with trash, the water is badly contaminated, and almost nobody swims, even when it’s brutally hot outside. Walking on the beach is just mud and trash meeting filthy water on the horizon.
There are much poorer places around the world where people can still use the beaches. This is not just about money. India has gone decades without adequate trash collection, sewage treatment, or enforcement for a population of more than a billion people. At this point, the scale of the problem feels almost impossible, and the oceans around the world are paying the price for Indias garbage output as well.
I like the direction Modi is taking the country, but India needs to treat cleanup like a national emergency. Stop with the small campaigns and organize a full scale blitz.
Offer unemployed people paid work picking up trash, clearing drains and waterways, cleaning beaches, and maintaining public spaces. Give them proper equipment and supervision. Then build the collection and waste processing systems needed to stop everything from becoming filthy again a week later.
India has shown that it can build metros, airports, highways, and digital infrastructure. Clean streets and usable water should be treated as infrastructure too.
Mumbai should have one of the greatest waterfronts in the world. Instead, it's has basically an irrelevant feature of the city and feels surrendered to sewage and garbage.
@narayananh Anirudh single handedly held films of Rajni - Kamal in the last few films where without his movie like Petta where I could see Rajni sir flab’s fall ofc because of his age . His music elevated the whole energy . His BGM works so damn well with mass and class . Right mix of both.
My Madras, if I don't brand, who will brand it!
Our problem is not that Madras lacks things. Our problem is that we don't brand ourselves enough. Other cities hype themselves relentlessly. We should do the same.
Here are 20 things Madras can beat almost any Indian city hands down:
1. Coffee
2. Beaches
3. Quizzes
4. Music
5. Extensive EMU, Metro & MTC network
6. An airport right in the heart of the city - proximity perspective not aesthetics
7. A genuinely diversified economy—not entirely dependent on IT
8. Manufacturing might
9. Incredible weekend getaways
10. Desalination & diversified water sources
11. Superb AQI
12. Riot-free, relatively peaceful city with strong law and order
13. India’s second financial capital
14. Enough listed companies - about 290 to create our own index—MADEX!
15. Millennium-old temples that provide something no mall can—inner peace
16. A fantastic sporting culture—chess, carrom, tennis and more
17. World-class healthcare
18. Good garbage collection infrastructure
19. The CEO factory of India
20. Fruits and vegetables of every variety, available throughout the year
And yes, we have lost some ground on high-end jobs to our rival cities.
But we will bounce back.
Madras has everything it needs to be one of India’s greatest cities.
We just need to stop apologising for it—and start selling Madras to the world.
Let's do this today on the Madras Day!
Some of you never had dependents on your income or family debts and it shows. It’s almost like you and people around you are so privileged that you are unaware of the reality of a large population.
Do what makes most sense for you.