Wednesday, September 10, 2014

NEITHER IMPLOSION NOR EXPLOSION

In this period of
rapid industrialization and IT revolution,
in this period of
large-scale job opportunities,
in this period of
massive inflow of people especially the youth 
from the remote areas to take up jobs
in different reputed institutions,
in this period
the youth are running pillar to post
in search of accommodation facilities
somewhere, somehow in the suburbs
at a time the ‘pregnant’ city is likely to explode 
and its inability to beckon each one into her lap
the only choice left to the new entrants
is to grease the palms of the real estate brokers
who find certain areas in the outskirts of the city
or the areas outside the city limits for these youth.
The youth who are aliens
will have to get accustomed
with the unaccustomed city, its outskirts
and beyond the outskirts
to cope up with their difficulties
so that an implosion as well as explosion is avoided
and the youth learning to lead

a life on this ‘unaccustomed earth’ to earn a living.

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