多图带你看不一样的现代印度

Different View of India: Pictures of Indian cities you don't see in overseas media.
Balaji Viswanathan
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 exst in every part of the world. Shanghai can be like this

在西方媒体中，我们总看到印度形象是这样的：拥挤、肮脏、污染。照片随机拍摄下水道和贫民窟。问题是，世界每个地方都有不入眼的部分。上海可能是这样的：

or like this:

也可能是这样的：

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.
Mumbai skyline:

不是否认上海和其他世界大城市比印度大城市的基建更好。只是我们看到的是二元的而不是灰色的事物。印度城市肯定更脏。这些是现实，下面的也是现实。问题是，如果只有一种图片展示现实，那就完全扭曲了现实。这里有另一种。

孟买的摩天大楼：

Driving through Mumbai's marine drive.

驾车穿过孟买的滨海大道：

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

几公里以北，甘地拉吉夫跨海大桥，连接孟买和郊区：