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

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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:

Driving through Mumbai's marine drive.

A few kilometers north, Bandra-Worli sealink that connects traditional Mumbai city with its suburbs

The new Mumbai airport & its environs

The serene Sabarmati river running through Ahmedabad

 

Jaipur: The land of palaces - now getting modern

The heart of Bengaluru: Vidhan Soudha

Mysore: Bangalore's royal cousin

Heart of New Delhi during the parade

The sparkling clean Delhi metro
 Heart of Chennai in lush greenery

Chennai's iconic Marina beach

 Chennai's southern skyline - not as good as other Indian metropolis but getting better

Kochi's aspirations to enter as a Tier-1 Metropolis

Hyderabad center around the Char Minar

Rapidly growing skyline of Hyderabad:

 

Kolkata - the old capital of India

Kolkata's Vidaysagar Setu

Heart of India's former summer capital - Shimla

Chandigarh: One of India's most planned cities 

Gangtok: The serene northeastern city

Jodhpur: India's blue city

 Chennai's Anna Memorial

New Delhi's Lotus Temple to rival the Taj

The Yamuna Expressway to Agra.
 

New 8-laned expressways of Hyderabad

 New 8-laned expressways of Hyderabad

Chennai's Kathipara junction

India's new highways.

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)