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Although this year most of the Indian cities are struggling with an unusual drought and water crisis that is often ascribed to a climate change, but almost all housing colonies and gated communities have a fully operational swimming pools!

Large scale landscaping is done in all urban housing colonies and children are allowed to play only in a small corner sandpit!

Tiles are vitrified in every household to make it aesthetically pleasing and contemporary where old people often fall and break their thighbones!

People spend lakhs of rupees on marble tiles and granite floors and negotiate cheap Chinese art reproductions as cultural quotient for their walls

Will buy expensive branded taps worth hundreds of thousands for washrooms and negotiate hundred rupees to a plumber to fix it.

We will negotiate with a potter for ten rupee discount and will happily pay a lakh and odd for pottery professor who can talk about pottery.

Roads will be widened to accommodate ever increasing vehicle population and at traffic junctions, old people will stand to wonder how to cross the road with their tired legs.

The forms of real human problems are very large and this is not even the tip of iceberg, but still we are worried about forms of serif and sanserif that makes no sense anymore on earth considering the largest text media today is visual media and smartphones, where sizes of the fonts are immaterial or can be altered for legibility and comprehension on a finger tap.

We are worried about layouts and compositions when billions of selfie photographs are taken every second and have already redefined the conditioned human aesthetics and that too beyond anyone’s comprehension. World today see the world, not by well-defined compositions and layouts but see it by 13 MP cell phone camera viewfinder and its pixel rate and automated post-production software: be it grotesque accidents or serine beach lands. In other words, image production is not anyone’s specialised territory anymore
- Neither the artists nor the designers.

Catchy phrases as the literary genius is a pass, as billions of twitter short messages are flying thick and fast across the world making it a common practice. All the physical boundaries seem to be crumbling in front of Internet technology and network cultures while in practice nations are becoming regimented, racist and boundaries are closed. While education is reaching its pinnacle in human society and diabolically there is million times more funding available for entertainments, mythological fantasies and gaming than poverty alleviation programs, civic amenity improvements and healthcare systems. Cities pay more liquor bills and multiplex tickets than basic infrastructure investments and taxes. There is no dearth of criticality, intelligence and creativity in academia those chooses to remain politically silent at the brink of human disaster.

There are more human frustrations, rigidity and relationship failures in the highly designed western societies than in the least developed. There are more assault rifles and manslaughter weapons made and exported from these highly sophisticated, aesthetically developed and intrinsically designed western societies than its least developed counterparts in the world.

Still, designers and artists across the world use the texts, methods, processes, philosophy and aesthetics as a form of aesthetical and conceptual human utopia or benchmarks of human development from these countries to enlighten and organise human societies on other parts of the world that are lesser complicated, serine and if at all may be little chaotic.

What design and aesthetics are we talking about?
What is the problem of this form we are talking about?