Bangalore: Who resides in our big cities? Of course, the rulers. Who stays in villages? Of course, the producers of wealth. They transfer this wealth to the consumers of wealth living in cities. Who are the consumers of wealth? They are the ruling class forming less than 15% of the country’s 850-million population.
All decisions are taken by these “merited” rulers living in big cities. And if their decisions have gone topsy- survey, the SC/ST/BCs and religious minorities cannot be held responsible for it.
Read what these rulers have done to their own places of dwelling in the past 45 years. The following is the editorial written by the Statesman owned by a member of the country’s leading ruling class and based in Calcutta.
The director of the new information office in Madras of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, Dr. Arcot Ramachandran, has voiced regret over the manner in which Madras has deteriorated in recent decades becoming completely unlike the city of gardens that it used to be in the 1940s. That regret will be shared by many, and not just in respect of Madras. Led by Calcutta, every Indian metropolis seems to be going the same way, slowly turning into an urban nightmare. (Statesman, Sept. 30 1991)
The ruling class is in deep crisis. And while it is sinking and drowning, it is trying to take others also along with it. (“Urban Boom & Rural Decay”, DV edit, May 16, 1982).
