Why India needs Metropolitan Planning?

Ar Anchal Srivastava
3 min readJun 24, 2021

Cultures of the world

Indian metropolis performance is essential for the future of India, because of its positioning in the structure of the world. There have only been 6 or 7 great cultures in the history of the planet, the most ancient of which being Animist culture, followed by Indian culture, which is 12000 years old (as Mahabharata shows the phenomenon of the sky that computer has analyzed happened 12000 years ago). Then there’s Persian, which encompasses the Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians, and so on, followed by Chinese, Western, and finally, Arab, which was founded and expanded in the year 600 with the Prophet.

Out of these 6 cultures, we have 3 main cultures around the world, which are 1.4 billion people- that is China, India with 1.35 billion people and the western culture, (adding US, Europe, Latin America, and Australia), in comparison to Iranians, Persian, etc. which is 200 million including Central Asia, Arab culture is 400–500 million, sub-Saharan — 1 billion ppl, then Indonesia and Indo-China — 700 million.

Figure 1 Cultures of the world

Out of the 3 cultures of the 22nd century, the Chinese, Western and Indian, two of them are very antagonistic cultures, Chinese culture basing on Taoism, Confucianism thinks that the group is the important and future is pre-determined, so one has to live with the flow and accept it. In this, a group or society is more important than the individual, and when the individual confronts the group then the group can crush the individual.

On the contrary, western culture believes that the future is open, and one builds this future by our daily actions. It is the individual that by his/her creativity and proposals is able to promote new ideas that will change the course of society. So, society needs the individual to be able to promote- through freedom. Thus, it holds that capacity to change the future of that society, hence it’s completely antagonizing. On one hand, the future is predetermined and on the other it is free, and in between these 2 different cultures which are already clashing (not military but more of an understanding on how to govern oneself), is India.

Figure 2 The 7 World Cultures — Scale diagram; Source: Pedro B Ortiz

The 7 World cultures The culture of India is more defined by Krishna, Buddha, etc., and the talk between Krishna and Arjuna before the battle in Gita, where Arjuna is told that the future is determined by your karma, and one has to follow their destiny, but if you are really smart, and you really have the will to change the future then you can, and that is exactly how Arjuna was able to win and change the future.

That element, that singularity that if you are intelligent enough, then you can change the future puts India in between the 2 cultures. Closer to the western culture than to the Chinese. Thus, India is going to be able to make a balance between the 3 cultures that are going to determine the future of the world.

So, it is essential that India develops its economic system - to be able to take the place it deserves in the balance of the structure of the world and globalization.

That position is meant to be through the metropolis of India that are the ones that really are the engines of the economy and development of the country.

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Ar Anchal Srivastava

Writer at Zeyka | SPA Delhi Urban Planner (Thesis laureate: 9.75 SGPA) | Architect (Gold medallist) | Researcher