No wonder they say India is a land of contrasts.

More Than contrasts I think these gated communities represent the ambitious side of us Indians who want to live in localities that look more like a town abroad...

And its not really a bad wish if you come to think of it esp. given how our own Municipal Corps take no initiate in improving the sanitation and road conditions for people living in other neighborhoods...

Of course the gated communities do make inhabitants more unaccustomed to the ”normal” Indian residential neighborhoods but who can blame them for wanted to live in a secure, noiseless, pollution-less place!!

@Asmita agree with you, but children also have to be made aware that the gated township is not the real India. This would help the parents and also the kids

Asmita has made a very valid argument. At least the neighbourhood folks would not dump their garbage in front of their houses and this is a very common practice in our dear country
And dear Nishi Roy children would in any case confront the real India ( whatever you mean by that) once they come out of their gated townships
People do not have to live in real India wherein half the population does not have any access to basic amenities like running water and toilets.

Cannot agree with your views Anupam. Gated community may be having a lot of advantages, but it comes with an astronomical price tag attached to it. Obviously, as you have only pointed out, only a handful of Indians can be a part of this privileged few...so this is not real India at all. And why do you want to shelter the children from ground reality when they have to venture out of their protected surroundings because how long will you adhere to a romantic, picturesque world that hardly represents India?

@ Reshmi agree with you. Children should know that what they see in a gated community is not the norm, it is more the exception.