This was the coolest thing I thought about today…just popped in my mind like those thoughts I get…
Zipping back to my Ranchi and Jamshedpur trip…I realized that there is a difference between the cities…
Ranchi is the capital of Jharkhand and Jamshedpur (also known as Tata Nagar) was developed by Mr. J.N. Tata…the huge steel plant is there…the distance between the two cities is 3 hours…
This is really an analysis of urbanization (and urban sociology) and how capitalism and city planning can be related…
Jamshedpur is a planned city…Ranchi is not…like all most Indian cities…it kinda emerged…if you go to Jamshedpur, you will see that everything this there...within reach…like a hospital, work area (steel plant) housing, stadium…houses are the same..tehre are parks…
See how the capitalist develop and plan a city…they want you to have the elitist things…you need a house and hospital…but like a well –knit tight community, they have a stadium (for fitness and all- they have a swimming pool too!!) and parks…again elitist stuff (bourgeoisie leaning) …I have stayed at another Tata locality in Gujarat…it was similar…(like a mini country, with all the things for a bourgeoisie life- except it had a beach close by!!hahah)
But its boring…if you need to get your phone recharged…there is no local shop nearby (think of the Lutyen’s Delhi) …
Is is clean, green and serene…
But Ranchi is dirty, lanes here and there…its chaotic… loud…narrow streets…tempos, autos, buses…cows…cycles…(like the Indian city)
Jamshedpur is stripped of a cultural and religious identity…the names of the roads are ‘A’, ‘B’… ‘O’…Ranchi has the usual names… ‘Church road…’
Every 7 min, there is a church, mosque and mandir..
But in Jamshedpur…you could find a clean, shut Parsi temple…but not much beyond that…
Now the catch is that only ONE part of Jamshedpur is developed like this...the other part is called Jamshedpur 2…its like Ranchi
And lastly…
In Ranchi, most people are Biharis…there are some tribals also…(what I like to see as Jharkhandis) please add more insight on this, from those who know about this…but still Ranchi feels like Jharkhand…
And Jamshedpur I bet has more of migrants form other cities…so it doesn’t even feel like Jharkhand at all…I bet it brings a lot of city migrants…(like from Bombay and all)
……………that’s all….
P.S. Ranchi is better…coz it has nice places to eat, amazing coffee shops and things to buy (yes, im being elitist)
Jamshedpur is BORING!
Zipping back to my Ranchi and Jamshedpur trip…I realized that there is a difference between the cities…
Ranchi is the capital of Jharkhand and Jamshedpur (also known as Tata Nagar) was developed by Mr. J.N. Tata…the huge steel plant is there…the distance between the two cities is 3 hours…
This is really an analysis of urbanization (and urban sociology) and how capitalism and city planning can be related…
Jamshedpur is a planned city…Ranchi is not…like all most Indian cities…it kinda emerged…if you go to Jamshedpur, you will see that everything this there...within reach…like a hospital, work area (steel plant) housing, stadium…houses are the same..tehre are parks…
See how the capitalist develop and plan a city…they want you to have the elitist things…you need a house and hospital…but like a well –knit tight community, they have a stadium (for fitness and all- they have a swimming pool too!!) and parks…again elitist stuff (bourgeoisie leaning) …I have stayed at another Tata locality in Gujarat…it was similar…(like a mini country, with all the things for a bourgeoisie life- except it had a beach close by!!hahah)
But its boring…if you need to get your phone recharged…there is no local shop nearby (think of the Lutyen’s Delhi) …
Is is clean, green and serene…
But Ranchi is dirty, lanes here and there…its chaotic… loud…narrow streets…tempos, autos, buses…cows…cycles…(like the Indian city)
Jamshedpur is stripped of a cultural and religious identity…the names of the roads are ‘A’, ‘B’… ‘O’…Ranchi has the usual names… ‘Church road…’
Every 7 min, there is a church, mosque and mandir..
But in Jamshedpur…you could find a clean, shut Parsi temple…but not much beyond that…
Now the catch is that only ONE part of Jamshedpur is developed like this...the other part is called Jamshedpur 2…its like Ranchi
And lastly…
In Ranchi, most people are Biharis…there are some tribals also…(what I like to see as Jharkhandis) please add more insight on this, from those who know about this…but still Ranchi feels like Jharkhand…
And Jamshedpur I bet has more of migrants form other cities…so it doesn’t even feel like Jharkhand at all…I bet it brings a lot of city migrants…(like from Bombay and all)
……………that’s all….
P.S. Ranchi is better…coz it has nice places to eat, amazing coffee shops and things to buy (yes, im being elitist)
Jamshedpur is BORING!
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