Sunday, July 26, 2015

Different View of India: Pictures of Indian cities you don't see in overseas media.


In the western media, we often see only one type of Indian image. Crowded, dirty and polluted. The pictures would be often taken from random sewage canals and slums. The problem is that those underbellies exist in every part of the world. Shanghai can be like this or like this:


This is not to deny that Shanghai and other great world cities have nicer infrastructure than the Indian metropolises. It is just that we are seeing things in binary instead of shades of gray. Indian cities sure have more than their share of dirtiness. Those are the reality and so are the ones below. The problem is that if only one type of pictures are shown it totally distorts the reality. Here is the other side. 

Mumbai skyline:
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Driving through Mumbai's marine drive.
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A few kilometers north, Bandra-Worli sealink that connects traditional Mumbai city with its suburbs:
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The new Mumbai airport & its environs
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The serene Sabarmati river running through Ahmedabad
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Jaipur: The land of palaces - now getting modern
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The heart of Bengaluru: Vidhan Soudha
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MysoreBangalore's royal cousin
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Heart of New Delhi during the parade
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The sparkling clean Delhi metro
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Heart of Chennai in lush greenery
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Chennai's iconic Marina beach
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Chennai's southern skyline - not as good as other Indian metropolis but getting better
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Kochi's aspirations to enter as a Tier-1 Metropolis
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Hyderabad center around the Char Minar
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Rapidly growing skyline of Hyderabad:
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Kolkata - the old capital of India
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Kolkata's Vidaysagar Setu
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Heart of India's former summer capital - Shimla
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Chandigarh: One of India's most planned cities
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Gangtok: The serene northeastern city
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JodhpurIndia's blue city
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Chennai's Anna Memorial
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New Delhi's Lotus Temple to rival the Taj
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The Yamuna Expressway to Agra.
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New 8-laned expressways of Hyderabad
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Chennai's Kathipara junction
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India's new highways.
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India is moving. Not one or two cities, but the whole nation. By not looking at the pictures above we get the distorted view that India is not progressing.

(SOURCE - VIA E-MAIL OF COL PRAKASH RAO (RETD) 

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