It just crossed my mind that everybody wants to talk about common man but never want to be one. Whomever I have met are nurturing some or other ambitions. Rather, some just expand on what they have achieved. Always there has been a confusion about a common man - income parameter, lifestyle parameter or, just a majority attitude? I feel pity on myself that I always drift from established standards as, I believe no standards are there to remain for ever.
Taking the relevance to community settlements and 'affordability' again, people conveniently overlook the 'ambitions' of common man and only understand the 'need'. It is seldom seen that a settlement has 'future' flexibility planned ahead of time that will become 'need' of the community therein.
There are incidents when realtors have ignored cross - segment development and, created something that is not 'sustainable' for the community to be. It would be so much good to the emerging development trends in India that we all remember the 'needs of development' along with the profits, and take such capital extensive ventures in a nation building perspective. Actually that is what it is going to be next decade, what we are planning now.
