A New-age Urban Imaginary

Due to the scarcity of data from government sources, twisting facts and rewriting histories in order to warp out a belligerent present has become a rising tendency. Such a tendency brings with it a convenient inability to speak truth to power. The majority of the urban credo today has fallen victim to a system of what can be called a new-age urban ideology of perfective fakeness.

Today, urban India largely lives in gated communities where the self-satisfying nature of human needs and wants have reached a sky-high level, so much so that a macro-outlook of what and how a nation ought to be has become a matter of least importance for many of the urban households. With the advent of the gated community culture, where everybody is reduced inside a gate or perhaps just their houses, where they are not even bothered about who their neighbours are (despite calling themselves a community), all of which have resulted in the making of a new-age urban imaginary that instils the idea of perfective fakeness as the rule in urban spaces.