Though India is mainly a land of villages, there are many cities as well in the country. Some of the cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are very big. They have a population of several millions. Life in these big cities is quiet different from the life in a village. Let us her consider, in brief, the life in a big city and point out some of its important advantages and disadvantages.
In big cities, we find good arrangement for education. Big colleges, even universities, are found here. Even a person of ordinary means can give his sons and daughters the highest education according to their mental capacity. There are also a number of schools both for boys and girls in every city. They also provide well equiped libraries and reading rooms for public use. Such arrangements do not exists in small towns and villages.
Cities also provide ample medical facilities. In every city, there are good hospitals in which the poor get free medicines and treatment. Many well qualified private doctors also serve there to serve the suffering. Lack of such medical arrangements is a drawback of villages.
Besides this, cities also provide many fine opportunities for amusement and recreation. In every city there are a number of cinema houses and theaters, where we can enjoy the best of pictures and dramatic performance. There are also a number of restaurants and hotels where we can get food, tea etc, of the finest quality. There are also many parks and gardens where we can enjoy natural beauty at its best. The markets of the city, specially when brilliantly lighted at night, are better than many exhibitions and fairs.
The most important advantage of cities is the availability of avenues of employment. There are centres of trade and commerce. There are big offices as well as a large number of factories and mills. Persons with every kind of qualification can easily find jobs to suit them. No such opportunities exists in villages where the people depend mostly on agriculture.
There are many other advantages of city life. City people are more cultured and refined. There we find opportunities to mix with people from every corner of the country as also from foreign countries. We meet people who have different nature, different ideas, and different ways of living and thinking. In this way. our outlook is broadened and our views enlarged.
Cities have disadvantages also. The remark of the English poet Cowper " God made the contry and man made the town" is quiet true. In the city, we cannot enjoy the beauties of nature, as we can do in villages. City life is artificial. Man lives cut off from nature. He cannot appreciate the charms of birds and flowers, or the beauty of the day dawn and the sunset as in villages.
City life is extremely unhealthy. Air pollution, water pollution and sound pollution have converted the city life into hell. The smoke coming out of a number of factories make the atmosphere dirty. The sky is always covered with black clouds. The people get no opportunity to breathe free and pure air, or to enjoy clear sunshine. Besides this, the food in the cities is dirty and adulterated. We cannot get pure milk and ghee. The food sold in the market is entirely unwholesome and unfit for consumption. The villages suffer from no such drawbacks.
One has to face many difficulties in a big city. Life is very costly. People have to live with pomp and show. A simple life, like that of a village, is impossible in the city. Besides, the cities are over crowded and people get very little accommodation. Rates are high and newcomers have to put up with a great deal of hardship. Distances are long and much time is wasted in going from one place to another.
People in the city do not have sympathy for others. Even next door neighbours do not know each other. There is no fellow feeling. That sympathy and close interdependence which is so marked in village life is entirely lacking in the city.
Such is the life in a big city. That is why so many people do not like to live there. Others prefer it owing to its medical and cultural advantages. It is all a matter of taste. I myself like to live in a city in a close vicinity of a city.
In big cities, we find good arrangement for education. Big colleges, even universities, are found here. Even a person of ordinary means can give his sons and daughters the highest education according to their mental capacity. There are also a number of schools both for boys and girls in every city. They also provide well equiped libraries and reading rooms for public use. Such arrangements do not exists in small towns and villages.
Cities also provide ample medical facilities. In every city, there are good hospitals in which the poor get free medicines and treatment. Many well qualified private doctors also serve there to serve the suffering. Lack of such medical arrangements is a drawback of villages.
Besides this, cities also provide many fine opportunities for amusement and recreation. In every city there are a number of cinema houses and theaters, where we can enjoy the best of pictures and dramatic performance. There are also a number of restaurants and hotels where we can get food, tea etc, of the finest quality. There are also many parks and gardens where we can enjoy natural beauty at its best. The markets of the city, specially when brilliantly lighted at night, are better than many exhibitions and fairs.
The most important advantage of cities is the availability of avenues of employment. There are centres of trade and commerce. There are big offices as well as a large number of factories and mills. Persons with every kind of qualification can easily find jobs to suit them. No such opportunities exists in villages where the people depend mostly on agriculture.
There are many other advantages of city life. City people are more cultured and refined. There we find opportunities to mix with people from every corner of the country as also from foreign countries. We meet people who have different nature, different ideas, and different ways of living and thinking. In this way. our outlook is broadened and our views enlarged.
Cities have disadvantages also. The remark of the English poet Cowper " God made the contry and man made the town" is quiet true. In the city, we cannot enjoy the beauties of nature, as we can do in villages. City life is artificial. Man lives cut off from nature. He cannot appreciate the charms of birds and flowers, or the beauty of the day dawn and the sunset as in villages.
City life is extremely unhealthy. Air pollution, water pollution and sound pollution have converted the city life into hell. The smoke coming out of a number of factories make the atmosphere dirty. The sky is always covered with black clouds. The people get no opportunity to breathe free and pure air, or to enjoy clear sunshine. Besides this, the food in the cities is dirty and adulterated. We cannot get pure milk and ghee. The food sold in the market is entirely unwholesome and unfit for consumption. The villages suffer from no such drawbacks.
One has to face many difficulties in a big city. Life is very costly. People have to live with pomp and show. A simple life, like that of a village, is impossible in the city. Besides, the cities are over crowded and people get very little accommodation. Rates are high and newcomers have to put up with a great deal of hardship. Distances are long and much time is wasted in going from one place to another.
People in the city do not have sympathy for others. Even next door neighbours do not know each other. There is no fellow feeling. That sympathy and close interdependence which is so marked in village life is entirely lacking in the city.
Such is the life in a big city. That is why so many people do not like to live there. Others prefer it owing to its medical and cultural advantages. It is all a matter of taste. I myself like to live in a city in a close vicinity of a city.
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