The Concrete Jungle

It has been some time that I blogged due to my preoccupation with new office, new responsibility and trying  adjusting to the city I have come back to after 20 years. I feel like a stranger to the place of my birth when I see around the life moving at the hectic pace.It is such a contrast life in metros.I see youth moving around but rarely I find them belonging to the city in reality. With their hands holding the mobile , the ears plugged with earphones and eyes glued to the various apps , they seem to be lost in their own private virtual world.They are virtually or rather on three legs.

The one hand holding the mobile or being held by the mobile is virtually chained and two hands have forgotten to move with the normal walk.And now comes the visual communication through mobiles.With all the senses enslaved , the mind's job becomes easier.
From foul legged Monkey to three legged Inhuman Kind-is this progress?
There is big gap between the comfort zones of cities and its dwellers.The quote by the Swiss Philosopher of 17th century sums up the feelings of 21st century.Does it mean that each age suffers the deluge of material greed and moral backwardness along with sunshine of hope and spiritual progress.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

.....~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Cities have become the regions of a deep bottomless chasm 

wherein character of people are sinking into 

but in the eyes of the world they appear to be progressing 

and touching new heights of never achieved materialistic growth.

I am deeply affected by the lowness of sinking levels of lust and greed

that has enslaved the senses of mankind and 

turned them into animals living in the concrete jungles of sky-scrappers.

There is no fear of law and it is the police that has been at the receiving end. 

BMW's overturn with drunken millionaires or run over pedestrians. 

The parents have to carry the dead in absence of medical help and for last rites. 

The rulers become the miss-rulers tormenting the very people who elect them.

The hooligans snatch away the latest model of car from the owners.

And the headings go on and on in a single day's newspaper.

There is a big gulf between the city and its dwellers. 

And love and respect for others has been replaced by lust and greed.

I had stopped reading the newspapers and 

blacked out the news for longer period some years back for many years.

I wonder if the time is ripe again to do it again.

But this does not seem to be right 

since it is not going to make the wrongs disappear.

But at the same time I think I will have to do it again
as it brings lot of pain to me
as my conscience travels to the oppressed and affect lot. 

The World is celebrating Mother Teresa who helped the poor and sick
and at the same time the rich are so poor
that they they can stoop to any level
to get rich and famous.

The city is becoming materialistically and mentally sick.

I just ask the netizens and the citizens to rise in this hour of crisis
of moral turpitude and materialistic greed  and 

become the spiritual towers that 

may lay the foundation of Love and Content.

......~ashok "anubhav"