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Cinema of red and blue, Pinaki Nath

Calcutta, India, Photo by Barbara Klemm, 1982

everyone who hasn't heard must get the news via this meme

WE ARE THE FIRST COUNTRY ON THE SOUTH POLE OF THE MOON YIPEEEE

Yo, congratulations, India!

🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

sauce

(via Suspension bridge in India collapses for the second time in a year - YouTube)

i feel you

Indian Air Force, HAL Chetak (Indian licensed version of the Aérospatiale Alouette III) light utility helicopter dressed as elephants, during the anual Republic Day Parade held in New Delhi on January 26, sometime in the 70’s.

Kailasa Temple in Ellora, India made from a single rock

Mumbai, India via CityPorn

Poetry In Stone! 800-1000 years old hypnotizing marble temples of medieval Western India.

Chinubhai Centre and Patang Hotel, Ahmedabad 1980 -1984

designed by HCP for owner and builder Hasmukh Shah.

India 19th century

crazy how India can have the largest labor strike in world history and it doesn't even make the news in the US. it's almost like they don't want us to know we can demand better working conditions

250,000,000 people participated in India

For reference that'd be ~75% of the US population

That many people working together for fair labor laws

And most of the western world hasn't even heard about it

1 out of every 30 people in the entire WORLD participated in this strike and you haven't heard about it

4x more people participated than the number of people in the world who have tested positive for covid and you haven't heard about it

This should be a massive story. Why haven't you heard about it? Theres a very specific reason.

Deep in western India, a giant larger than any in the world awaits its imminent welcome to the world. The Statue of Unity, a 600-foot monument to a founding father of independent India, is set to be inaugurated Wednesday.

The statue depicts Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who together with Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped lead India to independence from the U.K. Often known as the Iron Man of India, served as the independent country’s first home affairs minister and deputy prime minister, and he’s credited with helping unite its hundreds of disparate states into a coherent, functioning entity before his death in 1950.

Now, the late Indian leader will enjoy not just a towering reputation, but also a literally towering memorial in the region he hailed from, the western state of Gujarat. The $400 million Statue of Unity overlooks the Sardar Sarovar Dam near the city of Vadodara.

To give you a little sense of scale: It would take about four Statues of Liberty, each one standing atop the last, just for Lady Liberty to reach the crown of the Iron Man’s head with her torch.

PHOTOS: World’s Tallest Statue Ready For Its Inauguration In India

Photos: Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images

The Indian coastal town of Alang, the world’s largest ship breaking shipyard, where half of the world’s retired ships go to die.

El pueblo costero Hindú de Alang, el mayor astillero de desarme de barcos en a nivel mundial, donde la mitad de los barcos retirados del mundo van a morir. 

This is the Mohabbat Maqbara Palace in India.

Photo: Shruti Chakraborty

Video: 100 Years of Beauty in 1 Minute: India Edition

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