Every evening, India’s corporate workforce, our modern-day “mazdoors”, step out of glass towers with one thought: get home, unwind, and spend time with loved ones.
But that simple hope gets crushed by the harsh reality of gridlocked roads, never-ending honks, and inch-by-inch movement. What should be a 30-minute commute often turns into a soul-sapping two-hour ordeal.
Those working in metro cities like Bengaluru, Mumbai, or Kolkata may have to wait for hours in the traffic to reach their workplaces.
By the time they reach home, they’re too drained to enjoy dinner or catch up with their kids. The next morning, it begins again, leaving home by 8 to reach work by 9, only to repeat the cycle.
This is not just a traffic problem; it’s a planning failure! It’s almost like Indian infrastructure is rarely built with the future in mind.
Ideally, urban transport systems should be planned with a 20-year horizon. But here, we wait until roads are choking with vehicles and then scramble to build flyovers and metro lines.
And by the time these projects finish, often delayed, the city’s population and traffic have already outpaced them.
This reactive approach ensures we’re always playing catch-up. Until planning becomes anticipatory rather than compensatory, the daily struggle of India’s urban commuters will remain unchanged: always moving, yet going nowhere.
Corporate mazdoors step out of office in the evening, hoping to spend time with family after a long, tiring day, but end up stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, crawling forward to endless honking.
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— THE SKIN DOCTOR (@theskindoctor13) July 20, 2025
