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Everybody needs a safe
place, and it should be their home… Debbie Rowe
Dubai is a
safe place, and I never came across anything to worry about… Mo Farah
Home is all
about family. Families feeling safe and finding their safe place, which we
call, a home... Noma Dumezweni
Three
quotes from three people , Debbie is more known as Ex-Wife of the great MJ
(Michle Jackson), Mo Farah is Britain's world champion athlete & Noma is
Afro-British Actress yet when they speak about hope or city, the first thing
they have said is a feeling of safeness & I am sure they may come from
different parts of the world & represent different classes yet most of us
will agree with them as what’s use if we don’t feel safe in a place where we
take refuge every day! I know most of the readers must have guessed about the
direction of this sharing & you can quit reading if you have lost the
interest but it won’t get you away from the reality in which you are living
& I know your reply, what’s use, nothing will change on which my answer is,
indeed but shutting your eyes or sealing your mouth or closing your ear also
won’t change anything! Ok, lets skip the philosophical debate aside & let’s
come straight to the subject which dealt directly with the real estate of the
city & I am sure you will be surprised as you might be thinking it’s about
safety & crime & deteriorated civic law system etc etc & you are
not wrong as both the things are directly connected with each other only thing
is we are fool enough not to accept so!
As Debbie says, we all need a safe place which should be our Home &
Mo Farah says, he feels safe in the Dubai city while Noma says, home is all
about families & finding their safe place, so how you will correlate all
these but via real estate, safety & the city (Pune in our case), right? There is a
direct connection between safety which when applicable to city or a society is
established via Law-Enforcement & real estate, as only the safe cities
prosper & survives on the time scale is what history tells us but the
problem with the history is, history on its own can’t do anything about
changing the present, we the humans who can read the history has to do it by
ourself! And on that front if we check our safe city’s recent past, the scene is
changing fast as I remember in my younger days (which was just one & half
decade back) to my clients (I am a civil engg & a builder too) that in Pune
two women can come back home at midnight after watching the last show of the
movie on their own by a two-wheeler or by rickshaw, this is the backbone of the
city’s culture & trust me it was (still is) an important USP of Pune’s real
estate (read as homes) as in compare to most cities in the country of this size
resident used to feel safe on the roads here on any hour of the day but!
This but,
is the reason for my sharing as if you read last one- or two-years head-lines
in news, then death & fear seems to be two most common acquaintances of the
citizens on the roads of this city, on any hour of the day & not just
night! And if you don’t believe me then the infamous Porsche car accident
(please google if don’t know) which took life of two aspiring careers on late
hour of the night & if there are few some critics who are raising eyebrows
over presence of these young ones on road at late hours then two days back, a
pensioner (respectable citizen of the city) on his morning walk lost life to
attack of gang of thugs for just few hundred rupees which they demanded from
him for buying liquor which the gentleman refused & got hit in return &
succumbed to the injuries! The very same gang later attacked two more residents
nearby who later registered the complaint with police. Then you open up
news-paper & every alternate day you will get to read vehicles parked on
the roads getting vandalised by some local bhais’ waving koytas & rampuris
(thankfully, not guns yet) around & claiming they are the boss of the
locality. And if that’s not enough then every day there is news about road rage
fights on the roads & someone getting beaten up badly for minor issues like
overtaking or vehicles getting bruised with each other. And then there are
deaths of pedestrians, two-wheelers in accidents which mostly are the outcome
of lawless driving i.e. not following the basic rules of the traffic such as
over speeding, jumping red signal driving in wrong direction of road & yes,
by not wearing helmet too! Well, the death & fear doesn’t come just by
these human ways in Pune but nowadays nature god also brings them up on the
citizens & rain induced flooding along with trees (and hordings/
billboards) falling, are also making the people fear for their lives when on
roads! Last but not least, if you think by avoiding going on the roads you can
be protected then you are wrong, the worst enemy is unseen & cybercrimes
are on rampant, emptying your pockets (read as accounts) by using your own cell
phones & email accounts & yes there are sex or honey trap fear (and
deaths) too, which mostly went unregistered due to obvious reasons!
Problem is
not about the ways fear & death comes to you in this city, as any
prospering city has its dark side which comes as a package deal of the
prosperity; problem is, about our will to fight or stand against that darkness
& keep it at its bay, which is or seems to be missing of-late in Pune! And
on top of it we the citizens think by turning away from all these incidences we
will be safe then we are fooling nobody else but our own self & the system
(read as govt) has their own reasoning for all such incidences of death &
fear on road or in our homes! About street crime scenes, Police says, they have
less man-power & about cyber-crimes they have inadequate infrastructure to
handle increased population & spread of the city. PMC/ PCMC i.e. public
bodies are too busy in handling their political controls over these which is
good for bureaucrats there & may it be road flooding or tree falling, the
reason is, unpredictable heavy rains & the fear keeps spreading on all
fronts of the societies. If all these are not enough then not just residents
but the businesses here also are facing problems such as land grabbing too
mathadi nuisance (contract labour unions) about which most people prefer to pay
the money which is actually just extorsion than complaining to police, as they
know (or believe) nothing will happen but more trouble for the business! At the
same time everybody including the so-called leaders(read as especially the
leaders) turns blind eye to illegal hording & cutouts dangerously hung
along all the roads or the city, blocking footpaths & only after the
respective event is gone then the local body makes a show-off of removing these
hording, which are threat as well disturbance to citizens only!
And if you
think only, these are the only crimes or botheration for the common citizen
then wait for smallest of festival or some great person’s birthday or death
anniversary (Punyatithi or Jayanti) & there are wall of speakers without
which celebrations are incomplete & processions with DJ & Laser beams
blocking traffic (which is already slow) & ear deafening sound! All these
if you & me do is a crime but when any political or social party does it
then the entire system is deaf & blind to register on its own such act as
crime! I think after reading all this you must be thinking, well what’s new in
it, we all know & experience this every day, but my question is, what are
you going to do about it as that will decide your future which is directly tied
up with the city's future, is my object of sharing! Especially the real estate
guys (read as builders), because don’t think that you will keep making homes
forever here & let the society burn around you as the fire will eventually
engulf our industry also! Agreed, any businessman will say, what can I do about
it & shall I not focus on my business than thinking on these issues which
are not in my control or not my responsibility! My reply is, you are doing
business in this city & you are citizen of this city & at least you as
an individual as well as a group of businessmen can raise your voice over
crimes & attitude behind them as well can offer support in every possible
way to the system which we call govt as to name or shame or criticize someone
is easy, difficult is, to stand & fight along with that someone against
wrongdoings! And this is applicable to every person who has been benefited by
this city as its time to give back and do mind as the most popular dialogue of
our Bollywood says, “jurm karanewalese, jurm sahanewala jada gunahagar hota
hai” i.e. a person who silently accepts crime against him, is more guilty than
the one who dares to do that crime!
At the same
time, do mind, a system (read as govt) may turn a blind eye towards crime &
criminals but who are they but citizens of this city only, right? May it be
jumping red signal or cutting a tree or erecting an illegal hording, someone of
us only is responsible for making other’s lives at risk by breaking the laws, don’t
forget this aspect of the crimes! Once up on
a time, this city was considered as Pensioner’s Delight, Oxford of East &
culture was & is considered as our backbone & look where we are driving
this city where pensioners are not safe on the roads nor in their homes & on
top of it, we are not doing any efforts to conserve culture of our city. One way to
reduce crime is we must cultivate respect for knowledge & wisdom & art
in the young minds, that is culture & if that happens then automatically it
gets reflected in our behaviour. At the same time, disparity is one main cause
behind crime so we must try to educate these young minds & give work to
those minds so they don’t deviate from the right track & this is not just
the job of some dept or NGO but of you & me too! Let’s join hands
& don’t wait for someone to come ahead & taking lead to make this city
a better & safe place but the race starts from where you are standing now
& you only have to fire the starting shot, or else nothing will be left for
us ahead which we call future, mind it guys, adios with this warning!
-
Sanjay Deshpande
Sanjeevani Dev.
Please view my sharing about finding a Right Home/
Office in Pune, at YouTube link below & share if liked...
https://youtu.be/27j3I3rwGPQ?si=-ODYBxVI2Dl_C345
Please do visit my blog
links below to read about real estate & home buying!
https://visonoflife.blogspot.com/2024/01/choosing-your-home-along-with-future-of.html
http://jivnachadrushtikon.blogspot.com/2023/02/blog-post.html
Creating Togetherness; team Sanjeevani Way (Click link below)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/65629150@N06/albums/72157627904681345
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