BACKGROUND
Decades back the education centres/the commercial centres where scores of young students/employees migrated for studies/ work had a very simple basic expectation that they just have a roof over their head when they retire to sleep after a long day’s work. The dreamy eyes had a fixed purpose, goal and vision to better their lives and were willing to slog it out hard and achieve the dreams.
When “Sacrifice” was the buzz word & a trend, seldom did this young millennia cared much about where they lived or what was provided in their accommodation.
Without any complaints, they would willingly sleep on a floor mattress or if lucky a cot, won’t care much about the condition of walls, the dullness or nonexistence of colours, whether the tap runs dry or not, whether there was back up for electricity or not.
That was the “COT AGE” – where all they cared was a roof, with the humble radio to lighten their lives.
Times Changed – the “Cot Age” sacrificial generation with their rocksteel resolve, hardworking dna, abundance of entrepreneurial energy helped by the conducive government reforms took India on the Paths of Glory. India Shining!! And it truly is as we march to become the next superpower.
The Humble Dravids/Tendulkars/ have now undergone huge transformation. They are now more assertive, more aggressive, more demanding and yes they want it all. They are the Kohlis! They work hard, they party hard.
But some things didn’t change at all!
Clothes changed, gadgets changed, but the “roofs” remained the same. Though now they now enjoyed higher rentals! Many still have the mattress on the floor, with wires of laptops/chargers dangling from one end to another, unclean rooms. Its perhaps won’t be a game of Truth or Dare, but who dares to go to the washroom. Yes the pgs/dorms/hostels still to a large extent are the neglected places.
That’s what made us thinking. That’s what made us feel, that why are our pgs/dorms/ in such a sorry state, why are still they in the “Cot Age”.
Can’t we make it more cleaner, more cosier, more comfy, more rejuvenating, more soothing, and give the future of India, a soothing relaxing comfortable place to retire after all the hard work?
