The term City means a land of ‘promise’ and ‘growth’. A place that gives equal chances and opportunities to people. It’s a momentum of agglomeration of economics. People perceive it as a place that has better survival chance. It is a promise to a poor about getting access to basic amenities, of making oneself noticeable and acceptable , promise to a middle man that this place can fulfill their dreams, promise to a business man about monetary growth, promise to a politician for the development projects undertaken during the tenure and vote bank security. The papers that have been covered gives an insight into all these promises, their acceptance, and the complex relationship between people at power, planners and need of city and middleman. The manner in which migrants spreads across a city depends upon the city’s planning. There’s a reason why in a city one can find slums across the canals, or along the railway track. On this note was ‘Planning Illegalities’ by Gautam Bhan explaining the impact of planning as creation of topography of illegalities. Insufficient number of houses and lacking proper space allocation. If the fatal condition of the living and working is being talked about, then a similar scenario was stated in ‘Condition of working class in England’ that explains the situation of England. Influx of migrants by taking various examples of cities, and the challenges, common people living in slums face. The article gives a glimpse of real laboring districts mainly focusing on social evil, biological decline and political insurrection. This cannot be only explained as failure on the government part and their schemes implementation. To review the situation further, we discussed on the chapters that explained the dynamics between the government and planning authorities. Gyan Prakash’s ‘Planning and Dreaming’ explains the complexity in the process involved at Urban planning level and at government level. The chapter highlights the functioning of each body working as an independent unit at its own organisational level. Thus, involvement of too many people at power without being well distinguished into hierarchy leads to the confusion, or delay of enforcement of the law. The chapter ‘Why India cannot plan its cities’ by Ananya Roy suggests a way that complements functioning between plans published by urban planners and government laws through territorial flexibility. Solomen Benjamin in his ‘Occupancy Urbanism’ talks about space, politics and economics, where politics itself becomes the instrument of negotiation. Nikhil Anand’s ‘Disconnecting Experience : Making world class roads in Mumbai’ The Disconnection as in in order to build something which according to the officials would solve the city’s problem, has actually created a gap between the objective that the project was initiated with its implication, this is because it doesn’t cater to the common man’s need. In the ‘Ideas of Indian Cities’ by Sunil Khilnani, writer talks about the impact of trade and politics on culture, architecture and planning of Indian cities like Ahmedabad, Banaras, Delhi, Bombay, Chandigarh and Bangalore. The chapter talks about dribbling of the time and space and about economic dynamism. It is not only about the interrelation of the politics and planning but also about the laws and policies, about the formal and informal system that influences the planning process. Jai Sen’s ‘Unintended City’ talks actions and intentions about the system that’s comprises of privilege and exploitation (formal and informal system). David Harvey in his ‘Right to the City’ talks about all the rights ensured to the city but points out the neglectance towards right to the city. Chapter talks about this Right being a collective Right, the right to own the space, city as a platform where people moving in from different places can see their dreams getting fulfilled. Appadurai’s ‘Deep Democracy’ talks about working of three alliances that leads to a stronger community-based partners for institutional agencies charged with realizing inclusive democracy and poverty reduction and women empowerment. The article on ‘Urban utopias in twentieth century’ focuses on cities envisioned by Ebenezer Howard, FL Wright and Le Corbusier in 20th century. How planning a city can drive social, political and economic condition of the city. Paper talks about the heterogeneity in the evolution of Indian cities, coming out of the British Raj. India is a secular country that is divided into states, caste, religion. One needs to thoroughly understand the situation that is prevailing, the need of the city and its people and then propose a solution for the same. Corruption penetrates in the system when the demands are not met. The main issue that gets highlighted in the readings is that poor people don’t have access to the land where they live. What might work for one city, need to work for the other because City’s historic background is different, the demands of the people residing in those cities are different hence the approach should be different. As planning is the reflection of society’s demand. Planning a city should be done in context of its history. At the same time good planning can help in solving city’s day to day issues but also can bring about social reforms, bring a change in political, economic scenario of the city. It prepares a city in case of disaster. Like currently the country is fighting COVID19, the fear that has gripped the country is that what if this outbreaks in slum areas. Looking at the current situation of the slums both planning and hygiene wise, one cannot afford to have this pandemic spread in this area. What leads to planning failure is that the proposed plans are ambitious, lofty, not rational and followed by an incorrect set of framework. For the current situation prevailing in India, the norms and rules that are existing, it is like building on weak foundation. Nevertheless, even if one starts today getting the basics fundamental framework correct, like making housing to all as a fundamental right, ensuring whatever is being proposed is a response to the public demand and working of urban planners and government body as one comprehensive unit.  I believe the future is bright. It won’t happen in a day but will happen a day.