#HotTake365 The Final One The biggest lie in Indian urban policy is that cities are “failing.” They aren’t. They’re being deliberately designed by disregarding the many and serve the few. Congestion, pollution, unaffordable housing, unsafe streets, lack of and encroached pedestrian infrastructure, none of this is accidental. It is the outcome of decades of policy that privileged: • land speculation over developing liveable communities • moving cars over moving passengers • optics over outcomes • no outcome assessment of provided services Cities don’t become difficult to live on their own. They are dismantled by disregarding regulation, manipulating tender, disproportionate allocation of budget at a time. History won’t ask what Indian cities built. It will ask who were they built for.