I took a trip to India from Dec 3 2008 to Jan 8 2009. I will be posting my travel experience and pictures in this thread. Please follow me as i post my exciting journey to our Motherland with tons of pictures.
This is my home trip after 2 years and i have seen a lot of changes in our dear motherland.
I will be covering Delhi, Jaipur, Devli, Shajapur, Bhopal, Indore, Mandsaur, Pune, Mumbai , several small towns of rajasthan and pictures of my journey in between those cities.

In my trip i have noticed two different types of India. One is the new shining,affluent and developing India with awesome skyscrapers and buildings. I call it 45 degrees India as one raises his/her head in awe to see those huge and modern buildings.
The other India i noticed is what i call 0 degree India. The India on the streets, to the low level that you see right in front of you where most of our country lives and needs a huge improvement.
Please bear with my english and follow me in this journey.
Regards
This is yours truly ;)
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Day One in India.
I landed in Delhi on Dec 4 and drove to Jaipur.

Delhi Airport Pics. Sorry about the quality as i shot those pics in wrong mode.
Delhi's airport is refurbished and is a huge improvement from what we had earlier. This time it took me only 5 mins to go past the immigration and another 5 mins to get my luggage. I was out of airport within 15 mins of landing. Now that is impressive to me as i spent hours in my last trip.

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New bathroom just before the immigration counters. It is lot lot better than the previous one, but too small.
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The new airport sports a nice smoking lounge at the departures. Whole lounge is impressive as it has different shops, coffee shops and phone booths.

but i was disappointed by the AC. it didnt work when i landed and it didnt work when i left.:ohno:

Outside the airport.

I saw enhanced security as that day there was a threat of attack at DIAL. Parking was not so nice but wasnt that bad either. I could see T3 being constructed but my little camera wasnt good enough to take night pics at a distance.

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Next day in Jaipur the Pink City
4/12/2008-6/12/2008
Building owned by Birlas at statue circle

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Legendry Raj Mandir Talkies

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Famous Panch Batti intersection

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Ganpati Plaza

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New Vidhan Sabha

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Jaipur is changing fast. New development is not traditional pink anymore but getting more modern. I guess it is good for the city but i feel a little sad as the city is loosing its identity.

Revolving restaurant
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Earlier polo victory was a famous but crumbling movie theater but now they rebuilt is.

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lot of construction and new building coming up. All 45 degree India
Metropolitan Mall
Website (http://www.mgfindia.com/metropolitan_jaipur/index.htm)
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Fortis hospital

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World Trade Center as of Dec 5th. The construction work is going very fast. i noticed a lot of work in a month.
This place is gonna be the most happening place in Jaipur. it will have an indoor golf course, under water restaurant, mall, movie theaters etc etc. it is located right next to gaurav towers which currently is a hot spot for young people. Euromast took pics of same tower within last month. you can check out more pics in his thread.

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One impressive thing about Jaipur's new roads is that they have a multilane huge street in the center for heavy and fast traffic and service roads on either sides for the local and slow traffic. good thinking ahead

11/12/2008
Trip to Khatu shyam in rajasthan starting from Jaipur. There is a famous temple of khatu shyam ji at that place.

Jaipur loves roundabouts. There are so many of them and most of them have a statue in the center. Some are nice and rest are pain in the neck.

This is TriMurti circle built in the memory of the fallen police officers. BTW they have traffic lights at the circle ;)

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Westend mall. It is located in the wrong place at a very busy intersection. people have tough time reaching to it.

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So they built an overhead pedestrian bridge connecting to the roads on two different sides. It is in final stages. it has escaleters on all the sides. guess either mall people built it or they bribed some neta to build it from our tax payers rupees. It is very nice though.

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I had no idea that they were building BRTS in jaipur. It is in the outer jaipur towards sikar road. They demolished lots of shops on the road to make way for the BRTS. Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) is very strong agency and they have been doing a very good job.

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Saw few people driving on the completed BRTS lane.

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Looks like one of the stations of the BRTS.

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Jaipur Ajmer bypess.

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Jaipur sikar road. it has been well maintained since forever.
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Other thing Rajasthan love is these gates. They serve no purpose but still built by some seth for name recognition and to beatify the town.

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This is khatu shyam ji's temple . small but very famous. There is no statue in the temple but a head of khatu shyam. Legend goes that king khatu was going to participate in the mahabharat war from the kaurav's side. he was very powerful and krishna got concerned. he came as a brahmin and asked khatu's head at this place where kahtu was resting with his army. Khatu recoganized krishna and asked him to hang his head on a tree on top of a mountain so he could atleast see the war. hence the temple of a head only

love those mahabharat stories :)

i didnt take pictures inside but i visited this place again and took more pics. i will post them as i progress with my travelogue.

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Some kund next to the temple. rajasthan has tons of these too.

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Ofcourse i have to post some rural India too ;)

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Cow crossing :nuts:
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indrajal

nicely done.

^That's not rural India - its 'highway India'

Great pics though - Jaipur looks a really fantastic.

Very interesting indeed!

Thanks guys. I will be posting my trip to delhi next.
There are lots of pictures coming your way.

Nice work there boss.

Jaipur looks cool.

Nice work. Waiting for more:-)

This is yours truly ;)
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thanks for sharing with us :cheers:

^^

is that pic taken in chokhi dhani??

Thanks guys. believe me , lot more pictures are coming your way.

Jodhpur: No it is not choki dhani. it is national tribal fair at jawahar kala kendra. I tried to go to chokhi dhani on christmas but it was so crowded that i decided to not go there.

One thing i can assure you guys that there seems to be no effect of recent mumbai massacre on foreign tourists. I saw so many tourists both english speaking and non english speaking in my trip . it came to me as a surprise. take that terrorist mofos..

Now i will be posting pictures from my Delhi trip. it was one day trip. i went there by train from jaipur and came back on a bus.

Delhi is progressing very fast. When you are about to enter delhi you get a vibe that you are entering in a big , modern and vibrent city. you dont get that feeling everywhere in india. Specially while you go to indore you feel like you are entering in a big mess :ohno:

Delhi Railway Station.
Delhi railway station has this old feeling. it is really not up to the standards. it is an eyesore to the rest of the developing delhi. it was clean for an indian railway station but not up to the mark for a capitol of a country.

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When you come out of delhi railway station you are confused if you are an outsider. you dont know how to get to your destination and all those autowallas and rikshawalls are asking you to go with them. Then it strikes you that you can take metro. all of sudden your mood changes and you feel like you know this city and you can go anywhere. you start expecting that its gonna be an awesome experience and rightfully so metro fulfills your expectations. :)
then you ask those autowalls about nearest metro station and they point at the corner of railway station's compound with a broken heart and scatter away.
They built metro station right in the main railway station which is awesome.

Delhi Metro

This is a time worm hole which takes you from a 0 degree india to 45 degrees india in an instant.

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I saw lot of CISF guys smartly dressed at metro station. both at the station and in the trains.

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I'm little concerned that you are taking pilgrimages at such an young age.

:P

Paap dhone ke liye kuch tou karna parega na bhai :ohno:

delhi metro is every where. you cannot drive for 5 mins without seeing delhi metro construction site :)

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After this picture i was detained at american embassy and had to delete a bunch of good pictures:ohno:
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Resuming journey by bus to jaipur. It was cold so had to take pictures through dirty glass window
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I'm little concerned that you are taking pilgrimages at such an young age.

:P

:)

Nice pics.

More Delhi Metro construction

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Saw new ambulances. Specially in jaipur they started a new ambulance service US style. it looks good with lots of lights and stuff

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Metal sprouts
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Check out this sequence of pics when bus passed by a flyover. I was impressed by the quality, finishing and maintenance of the flyovers.

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These pedestrian over bridges are everywhere in Delhi. Everyone of them has a unique design.

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Close to gurgoan. metro is here too :)

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Checkout this sequence of pics where the flyover splits for an exit. I thought that looked cool.:cheers:

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more of delhi to jaipur

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Approaching mother of all toll tax point. Its BIG and usually crowded

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Looks like it provides a lot of jobs

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My only complaint is the lack of lane markings. Once you pass the toll center you are lost in a football field size road with no lane markings.
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Great pics mate!:cheers:

Another Flyover.
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Guess it is mustard season. saw mustard farms all over the north india.

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A statue in th midway owned by rajasthan tourism dept

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Thanks guys :). Appreciate it.

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Saw brick kilns all over in the farms as their side business.

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This concludes my trip to delhi.
will post more pics soon.

Awesome pics, indrajal:cheers:

Great pics Vishnu! and thanks for the nice coverage of Jaipur and Delhi.

:cheers:

The initial pics of the metro construction are of Line 2 on Aurobindo marg. The pics at the very end are of the Airport Express Line u/c on the Dhaula Kuan road.

btw, why did the bus take an exit on the DGE and pass below the flyover?

Gr8 pics Vishnu. Did u see the Ajmeri gate side of the Delhi railway station?
There was supposed to be renovation work going on there. Ajmeri gate side is the main entrance to the Delhi Train station

Thanks guys. :)

IU: The bus didnt take the exit to get off the road. As far as i remember he kept on taking exits and getting back on highway. I thought it was kinda odd too.

Euromast: I didnt know where the Ajmeri gate side of delhi railway station was. My coach stopped almost at the main exit so i left quickly. i was in a rush so didnt get time to look around. I didnt notice any construction/renovation on the side i posted pics of.

Great pics!!

What are those guys doing standing infront of the cars at the toll, trying to stop cars
that try to skip paying toll?

btw, DM has set a solid benchmark for public transportation in india. Its sophisticated,affordable
,efficient and help reduce social divide.

Monyaam: Those people in greenish jacket manage the traffic , they maintain the lines of cars. and the people in orange jacket take the money from you and give it to the toll booth guy and return your change. labor is cheap you know.

After spending few more days in Jaipur i went on a road trip for 4 days. i travelled for 4 days and covered 1700 kms. I stopped by at Devli, shajapur, bhopal, indore and mandsaur.

The first set of pictures are from my journey to Devli in Rajasthan from Jaipur. Devli is a small town but has a Dam called Bisalpur dam which provides water to a lot of cities.

Some building in Jaipur.

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A camouflaged tractor ready for jungle warfare on highway :lol:
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More of rajasthan's lover affair with Decorative gates

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You saw cow crossing before. now here is sheep crossing.

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Village people . so colorful.

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Village women returning to home in the evening
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A lot of rivers i saw were without water.

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Some little fort type thing in a hill. look closely it is not on the top of the hill.
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Going to Bisalpur dam from devli

small village road.

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Bisalpur dam is supposed to provide water to Jaipur too in next few months. it is like oasis in desert.

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The water holding side is supposed to have a lot of fishes. Govt gives contract to people to harvest fishes. last year the contract was gone for Rs 5 crore.

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I got exclusive rights to take picture on the Dam amidst the tight security ;)

There are 16 gates and this crane is used to open them one by one.

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I dont know what that was. may be a road, may be aqueduct.
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In Rajasthan every big place needs to have a temple. on the right side there is a shiv temple , some shops and residences.

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And ofcourse a govt guest house where you get fresh chai and stale pakoras.:nuts:

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There are some boats and for a nominal charge you can get a ride. Ofcourse some collector's family was there who were riding for free.

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I talked to the boatmen and they said their homes came in "Doob area" but they got compensated. with the money they bought house somewhere else and for an occupation govt game them permission to ferry people for fun. they seemed to be happy about the whole thing, they got a new house, good cash in hand and a job.

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This dam holding water spreads for miles and miles. on the other side there was a ganesh temple . this pic is from the steps of ganesh temple to the river.
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/indrajal/Travel/DewliPart5TripDam142.jpg

awesome pics dhanush dhaari vishu!
its great to finally see a lot of updates from jaipur! keep 'em coming!!

waise how long were you in delhi for?

Brilliant!

Thanks guys.
SN101: lol i think it is chakra dhari vishnu. I was in delhi for just a day.

Now i will post pictures from road trip to shajapur in mp from devli, raj.

This particular stretch is not the best but you get to cross so many historic cities like bundi, kota, jhalawad etc

This one is Bundi Fort in the early morning

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Entering Kota

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These random artifacts are all over the circles in rajasthan
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Getting out of kota. i took lot more pics but due to fog in the early morning they didnt come out good
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The hill you see on the right is not natural. I took this close to kota where they have a lot of kota stone mines. These hills are actually wastage of kota stone mining. These hills are miles and miles in length.

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Mini Secretariat in jhalawad
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A local animal fair

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I must say bhopal is very clean, green and maintained. it prolly is the best city in MP. traffic is not bad, city admin kicked out the long three wheelers and replaced them with TATA mini van and that changed the overall speed and the whole look of the city. other cities must take a note.

Bhopal from the rooftop.

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Guess whats this. this is sulabh shauchalaya (public restrooms) 2.0 . they changed with time too.

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Shivaji in Bhopal

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neat bhopal

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The great bhopal lake there are lots of good hotels at the banks of this lake.

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New highway under construction between bhopal and indore. must say i was impressed with the quality and smoothness. anything less than 100km/hr seemed too slow.

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There are windmills on top of almost every hill close to dewas towards indore. every time i go that way the number just doubles. it looks so nice, they are huge and feel good.

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Toll booths every where charging you a hefty sum. but alteast they guarantee a nice and smooth road. this one was a short stretch but was built completely out of concrete in US interstate style

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Haha...earlier they used to look like garbage dumps - now they look like a shopping mall :nuts::lol:


Guess whats this. this is sulabh shauchalaya (public restrooms) 2.0 . they changed with time too.
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http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/indrajal/Travel/BhopaltoIndore012.jpg

Atleast this one did.
This is how it looks like from the front. It is on your right, couldnt get right angle to take the pic.
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/indrajal/Travel/BhopaltoIndore011.jpg

City admin kicked out the long three wheelers and replaced them with TATA mini van and that changed the overall speed and the whole look of the city.

Amen and thank god for such astute foresight. Recently cities are increasing the 3-wheeler wretched vehicles and here is one city axing them for good. Will they follow the lead?

BTW thanks for the photo essay of your "pilgrimage"..

lol i think it is chakra dhari vishnu.

in your case, its the dhanush na

good ones of bhopal.
looking forward to indore, was there for a year or so. want to see how much has changed in 4 years
:cheers:

Shivaji in Bhopal

Where is the Pic ???:ohno:

Amen and thank god for such astute foresight. Recently cities are increasing the 3-wheeler wretched vehicles and here is one city axing them for good. Will they follow the lead?

BTW thanks for the photo essay of your "pilgrimage"..

Thats right. it makes a hell lot of difference when you replace this
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2009/2526573243_166e13b9dd.jpg

with this
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/08/0802_tata/image/tata2.jpg

i hope other cities follow the suit and "BAN" any kind of 3 wheeler commercial transit system.

sn101: I wont keep my hopes high for Indore. It is changing but rather slowly.

satsk3: I can see the pic. can you please try again and let me know.


PS: This is my 1000th post. wh00t:banana::cheers:

No more pics of Bhopal?

Bhopal is looking good.

^ ^ I took lot of pics of every place but either they are of the same place but different angle or didnt come out good. I am posting the selective ones only. but i will go through my collection and post others too later.

Sorry for not posting in this thread lately. i was held back by my job. I will start my journey again and next stop is Indore.

I was glad to see so much glass work in Indore.

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Indore is one of those big cities which have immense potential but long overlooked in terms of the infrastructure. Despite being one of the business hub of central India it fairs very poorly in providing class infrastructure to its people and to businesses. Change comes slow in Indore. The outer city is flourishing but the core is still the same. when you enter indore you dont get a vibe of entering in to a grand city put it rather paints a grim picture of what you are getting in to.
But there is a ray of hope i saw this time. While entering the city i saw huge demolitions to make way for WIDER roads. i mean it seemed impossible back in the days but looks like this time the city admin got really geared up and demolished all those little shops and malls everything to make way for infrastructure.

Here is one pic of road widening. work is going on a huge scale and it looks like its gonna be awesome once the work is done.

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Some cool mid rise

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more indore

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we used to stay in this hotel when i was a kid
:)
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This is the first mall of MP called Treasure Island. i remember when it opened the owner had to put an entry fee because people would just come in and walk around for free AC ,touch everything and leave without buying anything. you would get reimbursed if you bought anything. now they discontinued that as people started behaving.:lol:

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now that had pedestrian overbridge with escalators to cross the street. earlier people would just run across the street and slow the traffic down.
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contd.

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This pic might not looks special but for people who lived in indore this means something. This intersection/roundabout in front of shreemaya hotel used to have very bad road. but now they paved it with interlocking tiles and it is lot smoother now. interlocking tiles can be found everywhere in india now.

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Indore has maruti sx4 as cool cab. that made our car looked like a taxi grrr:ohno:

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I stayed in indore for 5 hrs and left in the night. here is the building we have been seeing for a long time on this forum and still it looks unfinished.

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getting out of indore aint easy :ohno:

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This concludes my rendezvous with indore. i will continue with my journey from indore to mandsaur via ratlam.

This is the first mall of MP called Treasure Island. i remember when it opened the owner had to put an entry fee because people would just come in and walk around for free AC ,touch everything and leave without buying anything. you would get reimbursed if you bought anything. now they discontinued that as people started behaving.:lol:



i was in indore when Treasure Island came along and they used to employ a guy to stand next to the escalators to help people get on. so many of the people would go there to "take a ride" on 'em and there would be huge lines!
and not to mention ladies decked up in expensive jewellery and saris;men in suits having a meal at mcdonalds.

Indore is one of those big cities which have immense potential but long overlooked in terms of the infrastructure. Despite being one of the business hub of central India it fairs very poorly in providing class infrastructure to its people and to businesses.


totally.
its a shame really. with the location it has, Indore has a big chance of becoming one of the big centers in the country if the state government does its bit and attracts investment.
They did start building an IT park there, with companies like infosys and wipro showing interest. any idea whats been going on with that, vishnu?

Great pics indrajal. Indore has changed immensely from how it was few years ago. I've lived in Indore for a cpl of years and change is very visible with all the new malls and glass buildings in the main city. Shreemaya used to be a fav for weekend dinners. There was an incomplete building opposite chappan dukans, did you see if it is still incomplete or something has come up there now?

satsk3: I can see the pic. can you please try again and let me know.


I can see all other Pics except the "Shivaji in Bhopal" :ohno:

i was in indore when Treasure Island came along and they used to employ a guy to stand next to the escalators to help people get on. so many of the people would go there to "take a ride" on 'em and there would be huge lines!
and not to mention ladies decked up in expensive jewellery and saris;men in suits having a meal at mcdonalds.



totally.
its a shame really. with the location it has, Indore has a big chance of becoming one of the big centers in the country if the state government does its bit and attracts investment.
They did start building an IT park there, with companies like infosys and wipro showing interest. any idea whats been going on with that, vishnu?

They started building an IT park long time ago and it is located ear Bhanwarkuan Chouraha on Khandwa Road.
This is the website http://www.crystalitindore.com/

what sucks is it still looks incomplete. I have been seeing u/c pics since years now and now when i was there it didnt look like it was operational. This is the pic of IT park i took around 6 pm. i dont see any lights and the whole area is not developed too.
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/indrajal/Travel/IndoretoMandsaur013.jpg

Great pics indrajal. Indore has changed immensely from how it was few years ago. I've lived in Indore for a cpl of years and change is very visible with all the new malls and glass buildings in the main city. Shreemaya used to be a fav for weekend dinners. There was an incomplete building opposite chappan dukans, did you see if it is still incomplete or something has come up there now?

how long ago was that? i passed through chappan but didnt notice any construction. last time when i was there over 4 years ago i did see a new building close to chappan.

satsk3: i fixed the link and now you can see shivaji in bhopal

Well next destination in my journey is mandsaur from where i did my undergrads. There are two ways to go to mandsaur , one via ujjain and second via ratlam. and sadly we went via ratlam which turned out to be our biggest mistake.
traveling between these two cities had never been easy. it takes grueling 6 hrs to travel 250 kms. for all the 6 hrs we barely met road for 50 kms. rest of it was just "nothing":ohno: . our poor sx 4 took a lot of beating. there was no freaking road. they dug up all the 200kms of road to make way for new 4lane highway without considering a second service road for people. i was so pissed after eating so much dust and dhakka mukkas. thank god i was not in the back seat of a bus.
where ever we found new patch of built highway it was smooth as "hema malini's cheeks". i was impressed with the short smooth rides but rest of it was just hell. they say that it will be finished by next year. by god i hope they do it.
anyways some how i got to mandsaur and visited my college MIT. it has changed a lot. from our 10 room college to now modern and well maintained center of education offering tons of courses. infact the whole city mandsaur has changed a lot too. i will cross post pics of my college from another thread .

MIT Mandsaur MP

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MIT Mandsaur MP


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Until MIT was built mandsaur was known for Pashupati nath temple and as largest legal hub of opium in the world.

Pashupatinath , Mandsaur MP
Pashupatinath Temple (Hindi: पशुपतिनाथ मन्दिर) in Mandsaur, India is a famous Hindu temple of Lord Pashupatinath. Situated on the banks of the Shivna River, Pashupatinath Temple is one of the prominent shrines in the city of Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh. Lord Shiva in the form of Pashupatinath is the principal deity here. The highlight is a unique Shiv Ling with eight faces of Lord Shiva. The shrine has four doors in four directions.
wiki
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a day shot from http://www.welnessguru.com/Location.htm

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Well now i will continue my journey from Mandsaur (MP) to Jaipur. After driving on non existent roads between indore to mandsaur we got better roads for our further journey. Roads between mandsaur till chittor were okay but after that we got smooth NH. i saw lot of construction activity on my way to finish the rest of the highway till chittorgarh. hopefully in an year it will we an awesome trip.
Road map
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Road to chittor under construction right outside mandsaur

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Brick kilns everywhere in Neemuch.

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Near Chittorgarh
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right outside chittor

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when i was a kid i always wanted to go to chittor military school

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These are everywhere and they aint cheap

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Well this one was
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looks like toy train :cheers:

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Sad to see all the Reliance gas stations closed. They still have a midway operational on this reliance station

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They built these railings next to road to keep people crossing the roads when the highway goes though a town.
but of course people still find their way on the roads.
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Transporting Marble
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When you see those mountains you know Jaipur is close
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Near Jaipur
My dad kept on asking me to go over 120 km/hr but i didnt :ohno:

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About to enter jaipur area
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This is the biggest difference between jaipur and indore. when you enter jaipur you get the feeling of entering in a nice , big and maintained city. Jaipur is easy to get in and easy to get out

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Instead of ugly hoardings the city has this kind of tube shaped ad containers which dont spoil the beauty of city

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Well this concludes this leg of my journey

Wonderfull photo essay, thanks!

I must say that the whole of India has caught onto the "itch" of 4-lane highways. Every state is investing Rs into such infrastructure. Wherever they dig up existing roads for the expansion, things are horrible, no proper lanes to guide traffic, gravel and dirt, errant drivers finessing every inch, lorries/buses causing potholes, rain playing havoc. Some surfaced areas without final finish are protected by stone barricades, thereby preventing further deterioration by truant drivers. Nevertheless, change is coming and I am glad to see the winds of progress. Within a few short years we should see good long distance road infrastructure everywhere and this should have an enormous multiplier effect on the economy.

You are right. you can see signs of changes and infra construction everywhere no matter where you go. Next step would be to develop a culture of maintenance. it has been our old habit of build and forget now it should be build and maintain.
May be this will give boost to surface transportation. If you look closely then you will realize that all indian trains are full and highways are empty. mostly you see buses and trucks on highways. once people get wealthier and road infra becomes reliable then may be it will ease the stress on trains and make commuting easier for everyone

Rajasthan govt does a good job showcasing rajasthani and Indian culture to people. They organize fairs all round the year so local artists from all over the country can bring their cultural things and sell it to tourists.
They have built fair grounds with sets of different kind of village architecture of rajasthan. One buy at the booth i talked to made 8 grand sale in the previous day. it is pretty good by indian standards.
i went to few such fairs to buy gifts for my friends. One of them was Tribal arts fair.

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It is set up as a small village with a fake well in it.
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They had real bow and arrows at one of the booths. 10 rs for 5 arrows to try out. i didnt do that great :ohno: That dude kept on coming in my way. i told him i was not an expert and he should move away but he was over confident.

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In the evening they have different artists performing on the stage

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hmmm.. paav bhaji . holy gai.. i miss the food:ohno:
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Ofcourse they had a place to eat too.
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Rajasthani style buffet. people sit around that low table and servers keep on bringing food without a break.
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Villagers tools on display

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Thanks for taking us through this journey:) Indore shots are a revelation.

For some reason my older posts keep on getting posted before the new ones. something is wrong with SSC. its killing my flow:bash:

Village well
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Furniture made by tribal/village people

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Furniture from saharanpur
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Another fair called Khaadi Gramodoyog Mela. They had carpeted the whole place.

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True, I think the issue is only with this thread:nuts:

Even my post which I made after your this post has come ahead.

For some reason my older posts keep on getting posted before the new ones. something is wrong with SSC. its killing my flow:bash:

True, I think the issue is only with this thread:nuts:

Even my post which I made after your this post has come ahead.


it happened to me once before last year but in this thread it happened 4 times already :ohno:

:bash::ohno::lol:
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I have requested the server guru to look in to this matter. Lets see.

Thanks sudheesh. that and other problem of incorrect order of posts has been bogging me down in this thread since a while

Rajasthan Govt is doing a lot to beautify the city. They have placed brass sculptures of dancing ladies, peacocks etc on traffic squares and circles.
this is one of the art work of a Gangaur festival procession .
but guess what, in last month two of the guys are missing . :lol:some one stole brass gangaur participants to sell it for scrap. govt is gonna ask police dept to pay for it as they couldn't protect it.

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Some of the streets of Jaipur
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That sculpture is interesting.

Golcha movie theater

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Gaurav Towers. one of the happening places in the city
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Shops at Gaurav Towers

Coffee Shop
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I like the way they make designs in your coffee

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More shops at GT.
Culture meets modern world. side by side

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Very famous ganesh temple next to birla mandir

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WTC next to Gaurav Towers again. work was going on at a fast pace

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New bus stops. every one has a unique chairs/benches

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Believe it or not but this is a Public Rest room. They built them right on the intersections with neat design and make money from placing ads. pretty neat ha. there are huge illuminated cylinders which are also used for ads without spoiling the beauty of city

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Moti dungri
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Some Fashion show preparations going on at jawahar kala kendra

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Some art show going on at jawahar kala kendra. same place where they had that tribal fair, fashion show and other activities

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Next i will be posting pictures of malls in jaipur

Great pics! The tribal crafts look awesome

Awesome pics mate. The coffe looks nice!

Thanks guys.
Jai: Raj govt is doing an exceptional job of promoting tribal and local art and also attracting tourists to these places where they get fixed price items. no haggling of prices anymore.

India101: I was surprised by the presentation of coffee. i liked their artwork.

Some more metal sculptures next to traffic signals. this time is a musician and dancing tribal girls.

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Same baarat sculptures which is missing two baratis

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Jaipur admin is proactive in building flyovers in the areas where traffic is not yet bad. good forward thinking

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Typical round about of jaipur with maharana pratap statue

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In this pic the road and other things might look crappy but what is unique about this pic is it is shot in outskirts and they already planned multilane roads with a huge median for plants and a service roads. Plus they put street lights even before the area is developed. Jaipur Development Authority has zero tolerance for encroachment.
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There are many malls coming up in Jaipur. Some are new and others are older shopping complexes and movie theaters converted in to shopping malls. Newer malls are on the outskirts with ample parking , and older malls in the city have horrible parking and mostly paid. Next feature are the malls of jaipur (few of them)

Hypercity Mall
Hypercity mall is the newest and the best mall jaipur has. It is huge, just opened and has good parking. eventhough they have only few stores open now but soon rest of the shops will be occupied.

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HyperCity mall

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The mall is well maintained with uniformed workers.

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HyperCity mall
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Coffee shop in the bookstore just like Barnes and Nobles
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HyperCity mall

Employees at food stops.

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Tabasco in India :banana:

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HyperCity mall

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Mall 21. It was a rather small mall , more like a shopping complex

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Crystal Palm Mall
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Underground parking

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And ofcourse always take ghandi ji for shopping :nuts:
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Forgot to post outside of Hypercity Mall

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Back Side of the Hypercity mall while going to another trip. they have huge empty space behind them. i am not sure if that is open for development work or just a play ground.

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Thats my one day trip to few malls of Jaipur. I must say they are generally cheaper than mom and pop stores. Plus labor is so cheap that they have an employee at every isle. Will post other pics soon. ciao:cheers:

hey u know the barrat u were mentioning... it is not a barrat it is actually depicting the religious procession of Gangaur... i think u might know this.... it's famous to Jaipur after all....nice pics by the way... i guess Jaipur is setting mark for other cities to follow...:cheers:

wow.. you know I have this exterior is very classy and well done. great pictures. thank

Great pictures indrajal! Wow, Jaipur is looking much better than the piss poor infra of Bluru. We have broad streets relative clean, traffic adhering to lanes, the people in an upbeat mood. I now understand what it means to have 7% growth in GDP. Change has come everywhere which is heartening, especially to the Dessert area of Rajastan. Rajastan is looking good, maybe the efficient Govt is doing its bit. I hope the story is similar in many remote areas of India.

It would be ironic if all these places leaped ahead but the major metros lag behind. We see problems in major cities yet to be addressed - unclean streets, narrow roads, no sense of forward progress, hopeless traffic problems. Cities like Bluru, Mumbai, Kolkotta, Chennai, Hbad are seriously deteriorating everyday and those in charge seem to be sleeping.

hey u know the barrat u were mentioning... it is not a barrat it is actually depicting the religious procession of Gangaur... i think u might know this.... it's famous to Jaipur after all....nice pics by the way... i guess Jaipur is setting mark for other cities to follow...:cheers:

Aahhh... how could i be so stupid. now i remember someone told me that it was gangaur but some how i assumed it was a baarat. thanks for letting me know. i will fix the captions .

Great pictures indrajal! Wow, Jaipur is looking much better than the piss poor infra of Bluru. We have broad streets relative clean, traffic adhering to lanes, the people in an upbeat mood. I now understand what it means to have 7% growth in GDP. Change has come everywhere which is heartening, especially to the Dessert area of Rajastan. Rajastan is looking good, maybe the efficient Govt is doing its bit. I hope the story is similar in many remote areas of India.

It would be ironic if all these places leaped ahead but the major metros lag behind. We see problems in major cities yet to be addressed - unclean streets, narrow roads, no sense of forward progress, hopeless traffic problems. Cities like Bluru, Mumbai, Kolkotta, Chennai, Hbad are seriously deteriorating everyday and those in charge seem to be sleeping.

Thanks barrykul. I guess importance for infrastructure is ingrained in people's mind set here since the city was designed by a french architect. Even the old part of city are wide and in geometrical shape. though they still are crazy crowded lol.
Jaipur development authority is very strict. Every colony has to be regularized by JDA and they have very strict norms. I have first hand experience with it, we bought a plot in a newly formed colony. but it was not legalized until JDA authorizes it. JDA requires 80ft roads and 120 ft roads after sa number of 80 fts roads, a park after so many blocks etc etc.
they took 20 ft away from our plot to make that street 120 ft. we were still happy becoz now it became business street. JDA allows shops only on streets wider than 100ft.
they were also first ones to abolish tempos from city and enforcing size of boards of shops and colors etc.
i must give credit to our CM 5 years ago who built so many flyovers. people critized him for not creating jobs but working on infrastructure . he said if we will have unemployed people on the streets then atleast they will have good streets to walk on. he is elected again and i am excited.

wow.. you know I have this exterior is very classy and well done. great pictures. thank

thanks mooktada. i am not sure i understand what you wrote:ohno:

The mall looks cool.

^^ totally.
great to see a lot of updates from jaipur. waiting for more!

Thanks guys. i will update more pics soon:cheers:

Sorry again for not posting for a while. i will upload some pics that i forgot to post earlier. It is mostly Jaipur and area around it.

Mighty and Red Tape infested JDA (Jaipur Development Authority) office

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Now World trade park is taking its unusual shape. earlier it was a box like structure

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Albert hall and Raja Sawai Man Singh's statue in front of it.

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Muharrum procession

It was quite a experience. lot of young men beating drums and foreign tourists watching them and following them.
me likey drums

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Other side of Albert Hall with Statue of Jawahar L Nehru

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This kind of make shift tents are everywhere in jaipur. They are multi layered tents which keeps inside warm. It is called Rain-Basera. It is state govt's initiative to provide a place to sleep for homeless people. it gets very cold in jaipur and is very hard on homeless people. Inside i was told they have mattresses and stuff. no bathrooms etc though. It is free for any one but i was told that the cops who are on duty charge people 5 rs per slot. still a good deal. they will take it off once the winter is over.
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Monkeys on our roof :bash:

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An unusual buiding i saw in jaipur. i tried to take the pic of its design and name but my window was dirty

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Jaipur Railway station

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Next i will post pics from my mumbai-pune trip. mostly it will have pics of mumbai airport and pune buildings.

adios