Tired by Design - How Indian Cities Exhaust Their People
Mayank Singhal
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🔥 Tired all the time?
It's not just your job.
It's your city.
From traffic to toilets - Indian cities are designed to drain you.
Here's how poor urban planning quietly exhausts 1.4 billion people.
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Our cities weren't built for people.
They were built for vehicles.
Try walking in most Indian towns - it's cracked footpaths, honking chaos, and zero safety.
Speed won. Safety lost.
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Your 2-hour daily commute?
That's not just time lost.
It's health lost, joy lost, peace lost.
And if you're a woman?
Every ride = risk.
Indian commuting isn't movement. It's mental taxation.
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Need a break?
Too bad.
Benches? Rare.
Public toilets? Scarce.
Shade? Only if a tree escaped the axe.
Our cities are built for motion, not pause.
Stillness is punished.
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Disabled? Elderly? Pregnant?
Good luck.
No ramps. No rails. No access.
Cities assume strength and youth.
Forget inclusion - they're barely functional.
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Poor design isn't cheap.
It costs us:
– More hospital visits
– Fewer work hours
– Lost mobility for women, elders, kids
The real price of planning is what we lose daily.
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Look closer.
Some neighborhoods have footbridges, footpaths, flyovers.
Others don't even have drains.
Cities don't serve people equally.
They serve power.
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So ask yourself:
What would our cities look like…
if we built them for humans, not traffic?