Different View of India / 对印度不同的看法

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: 

在西方媒体，我们经常只看到一种对印度形象。 拥挤，肮脏和污染。 照片往往是从随机的污水渠和贫民窟。 问题在于世界上每一个地方都存在这些东西。 上海也可以是像这样或者是这样的：

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. 

这并不是否认上海和世界其他大城市的基础设施比印度大都市更好。 只是我们看到的只是单方面的。 当然印度有很多城市也还是比较肮脏。 那些是现实，以下的这些也是是现实。 问题是，如果只显示单方面的照片，则完全扭曲了现实。 这是印度的另外一面。

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Source: WODE MAYA

Mumbai skyline:孟买的天际线

Driving through Mumbai's marine drive. 在孟买的海上开车。

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

北边几公里处，将传统的孟买市与郊区连接在一起：

The new Mumbai airport & its environs新的孟买机场及其周边地区

The serene Sabarmati river running through Ahmedabad

穿过艾哈迈达巴德的平静的萨巴尔马蒂河

Jaipur: The land of palaces - now getting modern

斋浦尔：宫殿的土地 - 现在变得更现代了

The heart of Bengaluru: Vidhan Soudha

班加罗尔的心脏：Vidhana Soudha

Mysore: Bangalore's royal cousin

迈索尔：班加罗尔的皇室表弟

Heart of New Delhi during the parade

新德里的中心在游行期间

The sparkling clean Delhi metro

波光粼粼干净的德里地铁

Heart of Chennai in lush greenery

钦奈在郁郁葱葱的绿叶中心

Chennai's iconic Marina beach

钦奈标志性的滨海沙滩

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

钦奈的南部天际线 - 不如其他印度大都会，但已经在改变

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

高知希望进入一线大都市

Hyderabad center around the Char Minar

在Char Minar周围的海得拉巴中心

Rapidly growing skyline of Hyderabad:

海得拉巴快速增长的天际线：

Kolkata - the old capital of India

加尔各答 - 印度的老首都

Kolkata's Vidaysagar Setu

加尔各答Vidyasagar Setu

Heart of India's former summer capital - Shimla

印度前夏季首都 - 西姆拉的心脏

Gangtok: The serene northeastern city

甘托克：宁静的东北城市

Jodhpur: India's blue city

焦特布尔：印度的蓝色城市

Chennai's Anna Memorial

钦奈的安娜纪念馆

New Delhi's Lotus Temple to rival the Taj

新德里的莲花庙与泰姬相媲美

The Yamuna Expressway to Agra.

亚穆纳高速公路阿格拉。

New 8-laned expressways of Hyderabad

海得拉巴新的8车道高速公路

Nashik city :

纳西克市：

Chennai's Kathipara junction

钦奈Kathipara路口

India's new highways.

印度的新高速公路。

World class cochin airport , Eco friendly running on solar power

世界级的科钦机场，太阳能生态正在友好运行

Mumbai’s Eastern Freeway

孟买的东部高速公路

The Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi

英迪拉·甘地国际机场，德里

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. If a media house shows a picture of New York, which of the following would they normally use?

印度正在进步。 不是一两个城市，而是整个国家。 不通过上面的图片的话，我们将会扭曲对印度的观点，说印度没有进步。 如果一家媒体公司展示了纽约的照片，他们通常会使用以下哪一种形式？

Both of them exist in the same city, but we use only one of those pictures as representative. Same for most cities in the world. However, when it comes to the Indian cities, we take only the negative images as default art to portray and that is a travesty to people who are working to build the country. Let's be fair in representing cities of the world as that impacts investments and poverty alleviation. Romantic skylines for one city and a dirty sewer for the other city is not fair.

他们都在同一个城市，但我们只使用了其中的一个图片作为代表。 世界上大多数城市也是如此。 但是，在印度，我们只把负面形象当作默认的艺术来代表，这对正在建设国家的人来说是一种讽刺。 让我们公平地成为世界上有影响力的投资和扶贫的城市。 靠片面而说一个城市有浪漫的天际线，和另一个城市只有污水渠是不公平的。

We need to be real. But, that doesn't mean dwelling in pessimism.

我们需要真实。 但是，这并不意味着掩盖事实。

Source: Quora

Dated: April, 2015

Author: Balaji Viswanathan

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