Must See - The Other Side of India

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.

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

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

Nashik city :

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

 

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.

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

What poetry has to do with math | The Indian Express

What poetry has to do with math | The Indian Express

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/what-poetry-has-to-do-with-math/

Shiekh's toilet..... what a shit.....

RELIEVING YOUR BOWELS AND BLADDER IN AFFLUENCE..

From the album of a sick ShiekH in Saudi Arabia.It is believed that this toilet costs USD 5 million + and is insured by an unnamed Insurance company. D I S G U S T I N G.

HIRABAI BARODEKAR- Photo Documentary by NISHIKANT BARODEKAR

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/rIVOVfXxVKQ

Smoke and Fire...The Cameron Air Show ...2014

This doesn't border on crazy, it is crazy!  Air Show in Cameron, MO.
Hold on to your desk chair, best viewed full screen with a HD monitor.
This one is waaaay more than just an airshow!!! GOOD as it gets !!!

 http://vimeo.com/100670266     

Property left behind by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (Former President of India)

Property left behind by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (Former Presdent of India)                                 

The property left behind by Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam:.

He owned

6 pants(2 DRDO uniforms)
4 shirts(2 DRDO uniforms)
3 suits (1 western, 2 Indian)
2500 books
1 flat (which he has donated)
1 Padmashri
1 Padmabhushan
1 Bharat Ratna
16 doctorates
1 website
1 twitter account
1 email id

He didn't have any TV, AC, car, jewellery, shares, land or bank balance.

He had even donated the last 8 years' pension towards the development of his village.

He was a real patriot and true Indian.... ...

India will for ever be grateful to you, sir..

Is there any politician to compare with him?

QUOTES ON ISLAM BY EMINENT INDIANS WHICH CONGRESS PARTY IGNORED

VERY EMINENT INDIANS SPOKE THEIR HEART OUT BUT CONGRESS PARTY NEVER LISTENED…

QUOTES ON ISLAM BY EMINENT INDIANS

Rabindranath Tagore

A very important factor which is making it almost impossible for Hindu-Muslim unity to become an accomplished fact is that the Muslims cannot confine their patriotism to any one country. I had frankly asked many Muslims whether, in the event of any Mohammedan power invading India, they would stand side by side with their Hindu neighbors to defend their common motherland, I was not satisfied with the reply I got from them.
Rabindranath Tagore
We want to draw a veil over our past to appease the Muslims…. We have done it for a long time. It is time we lift the veil from our eyes.
Lala Lajpat Rai
I have devoted most of my time during the last six months to the study of Muslim History and Muslim Law and I am inclined to think that Hindu-Muslim unity is neither possible not practicable… I do honestly and sincerely believe in the necessity and desirability of Hindi-Muslim unity. I am also fully prepared to trust the Muslim leaders,but what about the injunctions of the Koran and Hadis. The leaders cannot override them.
Sarat Chandra Chatterji
If we go by the lessons of history we have to accept that the goal of the Hindu-Muslim unity is a mirage. When Muslims first entered India, they looted the country, destroyed the temples, broke the idols, raped the women and heaped innumerable indignities on the people of this country. Today it appears that such noxious behavior has entered the bone marrow of Muslims. Unity can be achieved among equals…. I am of the view that Hindu-Muslim unity, which could not be achieved during the last thousand years, will not materialize during the ensuing thousand years.
Annie Besant (The founder of the Congress Party)
The inner Muslim feeling of hatred against ‘unbelievers’ has spring up naked and unashamed…. We have seen, revived, as guide in practical politics, the old Muslim religion of the sword…. In thinking of an independent India, the menace of Mohammedan rule has to be considered.
Sri Aurobindo
I am sorry they are making a fetish of this Hindu-Muslim unity. It is no use ignoring facts; some day the Hindus may have to fight the Muslims and they must prepare for it. Hindu–Muslim unity should not mean the subjection of the Hindus. Every time the mildness of the Hindu has given way to barbarism of Islam. The best solution would be to allow the Hindus to organize themselves and the Hindu-Muslim unity would take care of itself, it would automatically solve the problem.
Sri Aurobindo
You can live amicably with a religion whose principle is toleration. But how is it possible to live with a religion whose principle is ‘I will not tolerate’? You cannot build unity on such basis. Perhaps the only way of making the Mohammedans harmless is to make them lose their faith in their religion.
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
To talk about Hindu-Muslim unity from a thousand platforms or to give it blazoning headlines is to perpetrate an illusion whose cloudily structure dissolves itself at the exchange of brickbats and desecration of tombs and temples….Nothing I could say can so well show the futility of Hindu-Muslim unity. Hindu-Muslim unity up to now was at least in sight although it was like a mirage. Today it is out of sight and also out of mind.
Dr.B.R. Ambedkar
The brotherhood of Islam is not the universal brotherhood of man. It is brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims only. There is a fraternity but its benefit is confined to those within that corporation. For those who are outside the corporation, there is nothing but contempt, slavery and enmity.
Ram Swarup
Religious harmony is a desirable thing. But it takes two to play the game. Unfortunately such a sentiment holds no position in Islamic theology.
Shiv Prasad Roy
Pakistan and Bangladesh are their fixed deposits. Those are Islamic states. No one else can lay claim on them. India is a joint account. Plunder it as much as you please.
Francois Gautier
This is a profession of faith of a Muslim: ‘I certify that there is no God other than Allah, of whom Mohammed is the only prophet’, which means in effect: After and before Mohammed, there is nobody else…’Thus the whole religion of Islam is based on negation: nobody but us, no other religion but ours’. And if you disagree, you shall die. This puts a serious limitation to tolerance and from this strong belief sprang all the horrors of the Muslim invasion of India.
Francois Gautier
Let it be said right away: the massacres perpetrated by Muslims in India are unparalleled in history, bigger than the holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis; or the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks; more extensive even than the slaughter of the South American native populations by the invading Spanish and Portuguese in early days of America.
Will Durant
The Mohammedan conquest of India was probably the bloodiest story in history.
Alain Danielou
From the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of murders, massacres, spoliations, and destructions.
Rizwan Salim
Their minds filled with venom against the idol-worshippers of Hindustan, the Muslims destroyed a large number of ancient Hindu temples. This is a historical fact, mentioned by Muslim chronicles and others of the time.
Rizwan Salim
Savages at a very low level of civilization and no culture worth the name, from Arabia and west Asia, began entering India from the early century onwards. Islamic invaders demolished countless Hindu temples, shattered uncountable sculpture and idols, plundered innumerable palaces and forts of Hindu kings, killed vast numbers of Hindu men and carried off Hindu women..….. But many Indians still do not seem to recognize that the alien Muslim marauders destroyed the historical evolution of the earth’s most mentally advanced civilization, the most richly imaginative culture, and the most vigorously creative society.
Irfan Husain
The Muslim heroes who figure larger than life in our history books committed many dreadful crimes. Mahmud of Ghazni, Qutb-ud-Din Aibak, Balban, Mohammed bin Qasim, and Sultan Mohammad Tughlak, all have blood-stained hands that the passage of years has not cleansed. Indeed, the presence of Muslim historians on their various campaigns has ensured that the memory of their deeds will live long after they were buried…..Seen through Hindu eyes, the Muslim invasion of their homeland was an unmitigated disaster.
Dr. Younis Shaikh
….eighty million were slaughtered and millions of women were raped…..it was standard practice for Islamic warlords like Ghori and Ghazni to unleash the mass rape and enslavement of hundreds of thousands of women after the slaughter of all males.
An extremely large percentage of Muslims in South Asia today are the progeny of forcible conversions and systematic rape campaigns by marauding Muslim invaders.
Koenraad Elst
..the number of victims of the persecutions of Hindus by Muslims is easily of the same order of magnitude as that of the Nazi extermination policy, though no one has yet made the effort of tabulating the reported massacres and proposing a reasonable estimate of how many millions exactly must have died in the course of the Islamic campaign against Hinduism (such research is taboo). On top of these there is a similar number of abductions and deportations to harems and slave-markets, as well as centuries of political oppression and cultural destruction……
Dr K D Prithipal
Muslims will only live as an oppressive majority and a turbulent minority.
Sardar Ballavbhai Patel
A nationalist Muslim is only a contradiction in terms.

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World's Largest Flower Garden - in Dubai

The world's largest flower garden... in the last place you would expect: Rainbow-colored oasis with 45 MILLION flowers is in the middle of a desert

·        The Dubai Miracle Garden features over 45 flower species imported from all over the world

A multitude of shaped archways, flowerbeds and structures can be seen at the 18-acre site

The colorful array is watered by a system that recycles waste water while avoiding evaporation

Dubai Miracle Garden is world's biggest flower garden. It is situated in the North West Quadrant of Arabian Ranches interchange

This amazing tourist attraction is a Guinness Record Holder for the Largest Vertical Garden. Also popular is the heart shaped flower beds at the Alley of Hearts

Dubai Miracle Garden has more than 45 million blooming flowers with stunning color combinations achieved through 45 diff erent species

Bordered by windmills, this area provides parking, sitting areas, a prayer room and shops for visitors to Dubai Miracle Garden

The Dubai Miracle Garden features a sensational 45 million flowers over a 18-acre site, from breathtaking flowerbeds to heart-shaped archways and adorned castles

The spectacular bonanza provides a colorful oasis for the eyes of city workers, who can escape to the natural splendor

In order to create a fresh experience for guests visiting the rainbow gardens, the displays are changed seasonally

These have included millions of flowers in the shape of the UAE's flag, floral clock, a Ferrari car with driver decorated by flowers, a vertical buried car zone, flower apple structures, artificial animals, flower boats and an Islamic Arch Design

At the moment, there are 45 species of flowers in the garden, which are imported in from all around the world

If the natural landscape was not incredible enough, what makes this attraction particularly impressive is the unique sub-surface irrigation system that recycles waste water via drip irrigation while avoiding evaporation and saving up to 75 percent of water and energy

A fantasy flower house at the Miracle Garden, which has plants growing over its turrets, doors, walls and towers

A pathway shaded by umbrellas at the Miracle Garden, provides a colourful walkway for visiting guests

Peacock topiary covered in an array of colourful flowers at the largest natural flower garden in the world

There is no limit to the imagination gone into the design of the gardens, which include flowers streaming like hair from a giant human

Barrels tipping streams of flowers, and peacocks with colourful plumages are featured in the creative attraction

Even Disney characters such as Mater from Cars can be seen at the Dubai oasis, of course decorated with flowerbeds

Giant structures can be viewed in the park, covered from top to bottom in an array of flowers

If you're considering a visit to these gardens, this is their official website:  http://www.dubaimiraclegarden.com/