The Real India....

Tourists' Ghetto

This is the Real India

Thanks for posting

I agree,

nice pics, so many ppl over look the other side...Thats why i was kinda glad Slum Dog millionare came out...

but beyond the poverty, glitz and glamour, there are untapped places so nice and normal, away from commercialization...all around little pockets in india...

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WOW. The rat is just... *shudders*


Bad conditions...

Originally posted by: aandhanika

Is this really india??

It is unfortunately

Originally posted by: AsliiGuy

I agree,

nice pics, so many ppl over look the other side...Thats why i was kinda glad Slum Dog millionare came out...

but beyond the poverty, glitz and glamour, there are untapped places so nice and normal, away from commercialization...all around little pockets in india...

^ I loved what you wrote hindu4lyf and I'd like to add that in big cities like NYC where I live, people are constantly on the move. In India there's time to slow down and enjoy the simple pleasures of life.

Originally posted by: hindu4lyf

Nahh arun I totally disagree with your first bit. If you ask most of the goras down here about India, they will give you descriptions of a 3rd world country. No Indian will ever deny the poverty and the slums of India but the real India is almost always overlooked. By real I mean the way we work as a country to get things done. Indians are proud of who they are, what they do, where they come from. Being born and bred in Britain all my life, I have never even once seen such love for one's country in the way people work together like they do in India.

You know the slums you guys saw in SDM, i myself have been to that place sooooo many times as a kid. My mamas flat was about a 15 minute drive from there and we always had to pass there to get to his house. They live in slums, and believe it or not, they are happy in their own small world. The way they live in a community together is amazing.

After slumdog millionaire, you hear about the slums and the way India is a dumphole, but I bet no-one has ever heard of the beautiful hill stations, Mount Abu, Mahabhaleshwar, Matheran etc. These hill stations have no public transport. People usually frown on this right? People would come there and see that there is no public transport, instead there are 'poor men who are having to give people a ride on a manual rickshaw to survive' or the 'poor horses', but no-one looks behind that to realise that this is done to conserve the nature of India. Therefore no public transport is allowed inside these areas to preserve the beautiful nature. :) So yeah arun I totally agree with ya there.

People view India in such a negative light but seriously, the sense of community that is in India, you will rarely find anywhere else.

I don't get the point of showing the dead/sick rat, are there no dead/sick rats in any of the other countries in the world?

"Rickshaws parked in a no parking zone" Erm sorry but look up the amount of people in britain who have got 3 points on their license or lost their license completely for parking on a double yellow line

and the railway station, that is where many many people earn a living. From the little chai walas, to the coolie walas to the paani walas, to the dhabba walas etc lol. Thats their way of earning money, and if thats the way they wish to do it, then no-one else should have an objection.

and neither do i understand the need of sarcasm in the post such as 'local bin', implying that all bins in india are broken or something? slight stereotyping no?

India isn't perfect, but for those who are unaware of this fact, we are no longer a third world country anymore.we are developing, and one day, we'll get there (and we'll rule the world muahaha)

sorry for the rant but this topic was all negative, thought i'd add a few postives.

Yes maybe my post was a bit general, but you are so right as well..

I have never seen the love anywhere else in the world that India has...Maybe its me and my limited travel experience but i feel that way.

Also i have met patriots, but I think the people in India are some of the best patriots..I myself am a strong patriot of India (just like u wasnt born there)...bc of religion and the history in India..

i was talking to a colleague here in Germany, he says anywhere you go you will find indians...but we are always true to India and love india, no matter where we are born...

ANd its true, travel anywhere in the world (from my personal experience), and you corss paths with an Indian person form india or of indian origin, and we both will stare at eacher...sometimes, stop and have a small chat or just smile and nod your head...(happens to me all the time, but its the motherland connection i say)...

but yeah i agree, its hard to wrap a country into a classification, especially one as diverse as India..Even the US, we have our slums and high crime rated areas (South St. Louis is like #2 next to Johannesburg South Africa)...

I hope to go back this Novemebr for 3 weeks :*(....a year without india is not a good year..😭

UK in 1 week woot!