Everyone, in villages and cities alike, can feel the pressure
of population that threatens to overwhelm the country and neutralise the
economic expansion of the last quarter century. In that context, the 100 Smart
Cities project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s NDA government looks like a
winner. Many of our city governments seem besieged and out of ideas as they
watch the relentless, incoming tide of people seeking a better deal. The
response is not even a finger in the dyke.
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is the author of two novels, Comrade Sahib and A Twisted Cue. He was an assistant editor of The Indian Express and a war correspondent during the 1965 Indo-Pak war.
