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61 years of independence ..!!
Incredible India marches ahead and I thought instead of the tradition tricolor image, I would upload this shot of Bangalore which I took from a hotel window few months back to check a new lens. ( was still trying to figure out my camera!)
Once a quite retirement town and called the Garden city of India, Bangalore with the IT and BPO boom grew and is still growing ( as you can see in the image) even after bursting at the seams! And it is the same in each city and town all over the country with more and more industry growth and jobs created for people.
I lived in this city for five years and moved to a quieter, smaller town few months back. This is the face of new India for me.
The fancy building in the far is Mr. Mallaya’s kingfisher corporate office, left is the stadium, to the right is a huge hotel coming up …
Jai Hind! ( may India be victorious)
Been erratic in EPZ, but promise to make up during the weekend.
| Camera: | Nikon D200  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | 18-55 vr |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Title: | 61 years of freedom |
| Username: | 
Sahyadri |
| Uploaded: | 15 Aug 2008 - 5:56 PM |
| Tags: | Bangalore, India, Landscape / travel, Photo journalism |
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thanks Chris ( hope your banikng helpdesk improves thier service ...)
Peter, this is certainly nota quiet town anymore. ... I moved cos i could not take the traffic jams, pollution and faces that no longer smiled ! see rest of the pictures in my page, mostly taken in Cochin, where i am currently. 
This is a better composition with the crop (#2) than without; however, the foreground is an important source of information for those of us who do not know Bangalore!
On the BBC radio news this morning much mention was made of Pakistan's Independence Day while Indian independence was not mentioned at all............Though I think India's President is not in deep political difficulty.
We are glad not to live in a big city - fun, but exhausting!
Have a wonderful week-end!
Bill
HI Bill
Pakistan have thier independence day on 14th and India on 15th. it is actually at the stroke of midnight that the British Crown declared independence to India and Pakistan. ( midnight's children by salman rushdie is a good book to read)
so you will get to hear of us in teh news later in the evening perhaps. Difficult times are not over with more violence in Kashmir reported recently. hopefully, someday soon the two countries will
sort thinsg out and there shall be peace.
V1 for me, all the interest is in the human, street level! Love the smaller scale buildings and the trees all jostling for attention.
Moira
The changing face of India here Rad,but is it for the better ????
It has been troubled times since the partition of your Country.
I read somewhere that ''in peace sons bury fathers,but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons'' This is true with all conflicts around the world,but I think it applies more so with India and Pakistan.It divided not just a country,but individual families as well.I sincerely hope alls well that ends well,butI fear not.There will still be troubled times ahead !!!!
Mick.
Hi Mick, Is the change for better? i woudl say yes and no. yes because with globalization, more jobs and better life styles has happened. education adn health care has improved. but some of us worry about the younger generation who has no time for tradition and have no connect with the 5000 year old culture.
growth also means more construction, more felling of trees, more vehicles on the road etc etc contributing heavily to global warming.
Pakistan and India conflict will go on, once in a while it gets real bad in the borders ( my mom family traditionaly had men joining the defence servcies... so we always have one cousin or the other posted there and worry about them) but hope and prayers keep all going i guess.
V1 for me, interesting information keep them coming. Sylvia
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