A friend of mine (Indian female, American born...dyme) told me years ago that although she loves her motherland, like 70% of the time, she was disgusted over there. She said taking long train rides (cause auto traffic was awful) was really bad too; like she didn't want to sit down or lean against anything. Rats, roaches everywhere in the cars.
I believed her, but these pictures really make me go WOW
Also, it brings to mind what happened at the Commonwealth games over there a few weeks back, when the visiting athletes complained about how dirty the rooms were in the athlete's village (I made a post about it at the time)... One government official said (after people threatened to pull out of the games) that everything was fine, and foreigners just had different standards of cleanliness...pics below:
link:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/09/23/commonwealth-games-photos-emerge-of-%E2%80%98filthy%E2%80%99-delhi-games-village/
these are brand new rooms in newly built buildings by the way: