It is understandable that every city has its sewers infested by scumbags who eventually spread the plague. What is not acceptable is the attempt to sweep the dirt under the carpet and pretend like everything’s fine. Let’s not choose to be ignorant when the truth glares at us. Let’s get uncomfortable. Hyderabad Hyderabad’s politics has shamed the city once again when the as the suicide of PhD scholar, Rohit Vermulla indicated a protest to the discrimination against Dalits. Students who raised their voice on the issue were beaten up, molested and kept locked inside the campus with no access to food or electricity. Neither did the media have any access to the campus. The professors, supporting the students implored the assailants question them instead of beating them up but were paid no heed. 3500 students had been sleeping hungry, thirsty and without electricity, locked down inside the University campus.

Bangalore

The lovely city of Bangalore boasts of its nightlife, the posh localities, and everything hip and happening. However, with all that apparent prosperity, you’d know there is socio-economic dump-yard somewhere near. Well, to achieve the foreign like feel of the city, the officials proposed a drive to clear Bangalore off all beggars.

The way the beggars were rehabilitated was nothing less than a concentration camp which resulted in the death of 264 of innocent lives – just to keep Bangalore beautiful. Nirashrithara Parihara Kendra, the rehabilitation center had bodies lying for three days in the dormitories before they were discovered – they were better off asking for alms in the streets.

Chennai

When the city was facing the devastating floods in December, 2015, some people where trying to make the most of it. While robbers mugged people carrying relief funds and sold them off to shops who in turn sold them at a premium, the AIADMK tied banners of Amma to the vehicles coming in with relief from Karnataka.

However, the worst part is that the relief program was subject to caste based discrimination as well. Allegedly, access to clean water was blocked and the relief programs remained concentrated on the upper caste areas as well.