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Kapoor compared the infrastructure of India to Dubai Jet Airways CEO Sanjiv Kapoor took to Twitter on Saturday to express his disappointment with the aesthetics and architecture of India's metro stations. In a tweet, Kapoor compared India's infrastructure to Dubai's and called India's metro stations "naive concrete horrors." The tweet angered many Twitter users who flooded the reply section to counter his statement. Making a comparison, he wrote: “Bangalore, Gurgaon, Kolkata…why are our sky/top tube stations such concrete horrors? Look at Dubai (right) versus Bangalore (left). And this station in Dubai was probably built 10 years ago! He also shared photos of the Dubai and Bangalore metro stations to emphasize his point.
See the tweet here:
Bangalore, Gurgaon, Kolkata...why are our overhead/overhead metro stations as naive as concrete horrors? Look at Dubai (right) versus Bangalore (left). And this station in Dubai was probably built 10 years ago! https://t.co/jSYueFwSWw pic.twitter.com/jAHSV6GF3S
The tweet was not well received by many Twitter users who criticized his statement.
“Typical response from those who don't appreciate their own country,” one user reacted to her post, while another said: “Public transportation doesn't have to be pretty. If I had read more about urban planning and urbanism, I would never congratulate Dubai again. This city is an urban nightmare. Offensive limit to logic the way it's set up."
A third wrote: “Only if you had seen the ancient architecture of India. The only difference between then and now is that India had enough resources then. India can no longer spend money on aesthetics, even if it costs very little."
Many have also shared various aesthetic and well-designed photos of various subway stations across the country to prove their point.
Delhi Metro for you! pic.twitter.com/HA8z0g6AZZ
The same station some distance away looks like this (not the right part of the photo), but yes, most stations are box-shaped. • Sri Sathya Sai Hospital Metro Station #Bangalore pic.twitter.com/SCWEUxtmk6
Bangalore Metro has amazing artwork on the walls. They let the artists paint the walls later. For example, the Church Street tube: pic.twitter.com/41ojhy7JQx
From Hyderabad pic.twitter.com/5j2gfudR6j
However, some users also agreed with his statement. One user wrote, ''Rightly pointed out. Our public infrastructures are neither ecological, nor economic, nor beautiful, and many of them are not accessible either. Not only the metro station, but also other public infrastructure. Today, private construction has also totally upset aesthetics at the expense of transcendence.”
Another commented: “The lack of artistic appeal in India's metro stations leaves a lot to be desired. With such a rich cultural heritage, it's a shame the country's public spaces aren't more visually inspiring. Let's look forward to a future where form and function can coexist."
In particular, his tweet about the Bengaluru Metro comes in the wake of the much-awaited inauguration of the Whitefield-KR Puram (Purple Line) metro line. The 13-kilometre stretch is expected to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 25.
Last month, the CEO shared his bad experience with Vodafone Idea, saying he decided to switch to another service after nine years because Vodafone has poor coverage in some parts of the country and inferior international roaming plans.
