What If Cities Were People? Twitter Describes Delhi, Mumbai & More

People on Twitter are describing Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and other major cities as a person

How would you describe your city, if it were a person?

A tweet – on a similar note – by Twitter user Izah, quoting John Berger, has generated quite some buzz on Twitter.

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

John Berger

The tweet, with over 1206 retweets, has given social media users something interesting to think about and has also resulted in users posting their own descriptions of different cities around the world.

Take a look!

"Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman."
- John Berger

— Izah. (@izahshahid) July 5, 2019

The “Lovesick Student”, the “Romantic Dancer”, and More...

Delhi, I think, is lovesick student who still hasn't gotten over his first love and therefore drowns his sorrow in half a bottle of cheap whiskey every night, but he knows he has responsibilities so he gets up next morning, gulps down bitter coffee and goes to his part-time job

— The Boy Who Died Inside (@praveen_k_roy) July 6, 2019

What’s Karachi do you think? Islamabad is a middle aged bureaucrat male who lives to play golf. Lahore is a romantic female dancer who loves poetry.

— George Fulton (@GeorgeFulton1) July 5, 2019

Bangalore is a powder-faced, jasmine scented old grandma who helplessly holds a kerchief up to the traffic. Her memory is Helter-skelter, her skyscrapers are comically misplaced. She snootily bargains with the tarkari saleswomen but compassionately gazes up at jacaranda blossoms.

— Nivedita Gnat (@NathNivedita) July 6, 2019

Dubai is that uber rich person with all the money and the lavish lifestyle, but have never experienced real love and affection, and are emotionally distant. All this glory but nothing to live for.
Behind all that glitter and sparkle, there lies a shallow and empty existence.

— زینب ✨ (@zainabb101) July 6, 2019

Kashmir is a beautiful 18 year old orphan girl. Coveted, desired and courted by lecherous 70 yr old men who want nothing more than to devour her soul. Her beauty with her spirit of resistance angers them. Every day she is whipped. Bloodied & battered she becomes more beautiful.

— Shazia Bakshi شازیہ (@Shazia) July 6, 2019

#Coimbatore is a man, an agile young upstart, a go-getter who is sadly overlooked by his peers. But that doesn’t bog him down, he continues to thrive, hope and achieve.

— Anne Helena (@IsJustThinking) July 6, 2019

“Karachi Is Kris Jenner...”

Karachi is Kris Jenner and she is trying to keeping up with a lot of kids from different backgrounds.

— Hira Z (@hirazulfiqar) July 5, 2019

Galway is a mischievous auntie with an array of mad hats.

— Emer O'Toole (@Emer_OToole) July 6, 2019

“Mumbai...Holds Her Own Anywhere.”

Mumbai -fiesty, heady, no-nonsense young girl who holds her own anywhere.
Chennai- golden hearted but too-full-of-himself rowdy -a Rajani fan.
Delhi-incel Haryanvi Jat who masks his insecurities & inadequacies in toxic masc behavr.
Kolkata-matronly courtesan who's seen it all

— Citizen Yogesh Leela Pawar says Shriram Alaikum (@powerofyogesh) July 6, 2019

What type of person do you see your city as? Do tell us in the comments below!