New Mumbai. The growing periphery of the city is going to be soon a thriving center for businness and high-income residents.
Dawn. In a street of Mumbai. Mumbay has a very high incidence of chronic respiratory problems, arising from extreme air pollution. The causes of pollution are mainly industries in the eastern suburbs and New Bombay, garbage burning by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (sanitation), and insufficient control over emission levels from vehicles.
A view of Colaba, the old center of Mumbai, where clothes and linen washers serve hotels and privates.
A luxury residential area in Mumbai. There is an increasing demand in the Mumbai real estate market for bigger and more luxurious apartments, mainly from executives, Non-Resident-Indians and high net worth individuals in their mid thirties and forties working for financial institutions, banks, IT and software companies.
Mumbai. A bedroom.
A luxury residential area in Mumbai. There is an increasing demand in the Mumbai real estate market for bigger and better apartments, mainly from executives, Non-Resident-Indians and high net worth individuals in their mid thirties and forties working for financial institutions, banks, IT and software companies.
Churchgate train station in Mumbai. The station is one of the busiest in the city. Millions of city dwellers residing in the suburbs alight at this station to get to their offices in the business districts of south Mumbai.
A view of downtown Mumbai. In the last years, real estate developping registered a 30% to 50% increase in prices as well as demand for property in Mumbai compared with the ongoing steady demand and prices in Delhi.
Mumbai. Arshad Khan, 24. He recently moved away from New Delhi, where he did not want to stand anymore the verbal and physical harassment he was exposed to as homosexual. After his master in English literature he recently started working as a journalist fro Rolling Stone India.
A construction site in Mumbai. Construction workers come cheap. They subsist on daily wages of less than 1 euro and don't demand compensation for injuries or death. Attempts to unionise the workers have also fallen flat. According to the Construction and Other Miscellaneous Workers Welfare Act, a contractor or a subcontractor would have liabilities only if he has more than 50 workers under him. So most of the labour contractors have about 48-49 workers to keep them above law.
A luxury residential area in Mumbai. There is an increasing demand in the Mumbai real estate market for bigger and better apartments, mainly from executives, Non-Resident-Indians and high net worth individuals in their mid thirties and forties working for financial institutions, banks, IT and software companies.
A construction site in Mumbai. Construction workers come cheap. They subsist on daily wages of less than 1 euro and don't demand compensation for injuries or death. Attempts to unionise the workers have also fallen flat. According to the Construction and Other Miscellaneous Workers Welfare Act, a contractor or a subcontractor would have liabilities only if he has more than 50 workers under him. So most of the labour contractors have about 48-49 workers to keep them above law.
New Delhi. An ice-cream vendor in a park of the city.
Sunset. In a park of New Delhi a few days before Holi.
Mumbai. A view of a clothes and linen washer that serves hotels and privates in Colaba.
Sunset. New Delhi. Rahit, Taru, Neetu and Yogesh, all 17, practicing field hockey in a park of New Delhi. This sport has recently become popular among girls since the 2007 Bollywood hit film Chak De India celebrating the Indian Women's Hockey Team win in the 2004 Hockey Asia Cup.
A construction site in Mumbai. Construction workers come cheap. They subsist on daily wages of less than 1 euro and don't demand compensation for injuries or death.
A rickshaw puller in a street in Old Delhi surrounded by advertisements of Bollywood celebrities.
Mumbai. Supreet Gill, 21, Neil Bhatt, 20, Praneet Bhatt, 26, Gaurav Mendiratta, 24, and Nikhil Vij, 22, during a break of the advertising campaign for a new fantasy TV series to be shot in Mumbai and produced by Sagar Films, and called Arsalan. Based on Japanese myths and legends, the TV series showcases martial arts and it took actors seven months to just work out the concept. According to producer Shakti Sagar, this classic good-versus-bad saga will take the Indian fantasy genre to another level. Sagar Films was founded by Ramanand Sagar, and aired several mythological and religious TV shows which were very popular in the
Morning. Delhi Cantt Railway station. A man waiting for with his luggage.
On the road to Delhi, an Army car parked outside a guesthouse.
A construction site in Agra.
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