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Credits and title |
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1.NEW DELHI
General views and aspects of daily life in New Delhi, the capital of India, which is the political hub of the country and seat of the federal government. The city has grown exponentially during the last two decades, with expanding commerce, urbanization, and migration straining its infrastructure to the extreme. The city also includes stray pockets of rural economy, not far from the urban, modern areas.
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Title |
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India Gate (War Memorial) with its reflection seen in water |
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India Gate (2 shots) |
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Indian Parliament with pigeons flying in the foreground |
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Parliament and Secretariat buildings housing the various Government Ministries |
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North Block of the Secretariat |
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South Block of the Secretariat |
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President's Residence |
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Jama Masjid, Delhi's largest mosque (2 shots) |
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Red Fort (2 shots) |
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Qutb Minar |
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Central business district, Connaught Place |
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Commercial complexes housing various businesses |
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Buildings housing offices (2 shots) |
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Traffic (4 shots) |
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Delhi Metro, which runs on an elevated corridor, with traffic moving under it |
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Metro construction (5 shots) |
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Exterior of a shopping centre (2 shots) |
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Smoke coming out of a chimney at a thermal power plant (2 shots) |
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Yamunâ River with polluted water (2 shots) |
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Boatmen collecting garbage from the river (2 shots) |
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Man bathing in the river |
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Slum housing |
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Rubbish dump on the banks of the Yamunâ River |
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Woman seated inside a pipe with two children seated on top of it, barber, and woman doing dryer clothes (2 shots) |
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Metro train moving on its elevated corridor with slums beneath it |
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Paddy fields with train moving in the background |
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Harvested fields and threshing grain (5 shots) |
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Fields with planting crops (3 shots) |
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Winnowing grain (3 shots) |
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Fields with men working (4 shots) |
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Haystack |
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Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) showroom
SEWA is a trade union that works with poor, self-employed women workers. These women earn a living through their own labour, or by working for small handicraft businesses, and have remained in the unorganized labour sector for a long time. SEWA also provides support services such as savings, credits, health care, and legal aid. The EC has supported many of their projects in the past, including the rehabilitation and reconstruction of houses, educational institutions, and livelihoods after the Gujarat earthquake in 2001. |
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Exterior and show window of a SEWA shop
Hansiba is a shop which sells products made by women, from rural areas under the Non-Government Organisation Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) (3 shots) |
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Posters and publications inside the shop (7 shots) |
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Hand-crafted articles and clothes (9 shots) |
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EU Delegation: European Union flag, exterior views, and reception (9 shots) |
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2.MUMBAI
Mumbai, a teeming cosmopolitan city, is home to the country’s financial and movie business. It is the nerve centre of the Indian stock market and industrial activity. It is also the city that symbolises the stark contrasts in wealth distribution, being home to one of the biggest slums in Asia.
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Title |
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Skyscrapers |
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Traffic |
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Sea with buildings in the background |
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Skyscrapers |
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Taj Mahal Hotel and Gateway of India (3 shots) |
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Statue of Hindu Warrior Shivaji astride a horse |
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Traffic outside CST station (3 shots) |
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Crowded market place (4 shots) |
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Exterior of the National Stock Exchange building (2 shots) |
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Bombay Stock Exchange and Dalal Street (4 shots) |
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Bridge (3 shots) |
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Building under construction |
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Roadside rubbish dump |
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Man being shaved in a roadside salon |
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Polluted sea shore with woman washing a young boy (2 shots) |
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Family squatting at roadside |
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Slums (2 shots) |
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Slums, polluted pipes, rubbish (8 shots) |
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Smoking chimney (2 shots) |
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Local train with smoking chimney in background |
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Slums, polluted pipes, rubbish (8 shots) |
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Bollywood billboards with traffic in foreground (5 shots)
Bollywood is the Indian film empire which produces nearly 1000 movies every year, mainly in Hindi and 29 other languages. The Bollywood dream brings in thousands of aspiring actors and film-makers, to Mumbai every day, who hope to become part of this industry, which offers an escape from the reality, through its glitzy songs and emotional celluloid dramas. |
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'Famous Studios': film studio (2 shots) |
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Humsafar Trust building
The Humsafar Trust was set up in April 1994 by the leading gay activist Ashok Row Kavi and 2 other men, who wished to reach out to the gay population in the Mumbai Metro and surrounding areas. It is a Gay Community Based Organization, and its activities include inviting gay men and lesbian women, to attend workshops at its drop-in centre, and address issues like coming out to self and family, dealing with relationships, dealing with legal issues of gay men, health and human rights related issues. Their outreach programme distributes over 700,000 condoms every year. One of their projects, which supports Indian civil society organizations in many social sectors, including health and HIV-AIDS, is funded by the EC. |
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Humsafar Trust sign |
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People in the office (7 shots) |
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Notice board with various HIV-AIDS awareness posters |
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People consulting the doctor, attending counseling sessions, and doing blood tests (7 shots) |
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Group discussion (4 shots) |
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Volunteers performing street theater, and distributing condoms to spread AIDS awareness (7 shots) |
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Condom packet with a message saying: "Say yes to condoms, for a healthy life" |
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AIDS awareness posters at the Humsafar Trust (2 shots) |
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Humsafar Trust Board and boxes of condoms |
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3.CHENNAI
Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu State in South India. Chennai’s economy has a broad industrial base mainly in sectors, such as the automobile industry, technology, hardware manufacturing and healthcare industries. The city is one of India's largest exporters of software, information technology and information-technology-enabled services; it is also the hub of India's automotive export sector. |
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Title |
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Statues at Marina Beach |
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Horse riding on Marina beach |
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People on the beach in the morning |
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People walking in the street |
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Exterior of the Kartikeya Hindu temple |
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Elderly man seated by the roadside |
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Women making flower garlands |
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Traffic (4 shots) |
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Bus depot |
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Train arriving in the railway station, people alighting from the train (2 shots) |
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Traffic on the bridge (2 shots) |
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Exterior of a building |
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Traffic on road leading to a building site |
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Construction work (4 shots) |
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Crowded market place (4 shots) |
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Saravan Selvarathnam building: a well-known South Indian food chain |
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Man frying snacks (3 shots) |
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Men chopping onions and grating cabbage (3 shots) |
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Preparing "dosas", pancakes made of rice (3 shots) |
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Women selling fish (2 shots) |
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Shops selling vegetables and spices (4 shots) |
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Slum-dwellers collecting water from a handpump (2 shots) |
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Man bathing a child in the street |
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Female slum dweller collecting water from a handpump, and washing clothes (4 shots) |
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Call centre: people working on computer (7 shots) |
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Hyundai car showroom (2 shots) |
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AVM film production studio sign |
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4.THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA STATE
Handloom weaving is one of India’s most ancient traditions, and is the second largest rural employment provider in the country, next to agriculture. Hundreds of thousands of domestic handlooms are spread across India, providing livelihood to weavers and their families. Handloom products from India enjoy international reputation, and are much in demand in the global market, but weavers have been facing hardships due to increasing costs and rising competition from machine-made cloth.
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Title |
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People and traffic |
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Traditional handloom weaver's factory |
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Women weaving cloth on handlooms (15 shots) |
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Man spinning cotton thread on a loom (3 shots) |
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Handloom sarees and clothes (3 shots) |
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5.NOIDA, UTTAR PRADESH STATE
Nokia Siemens is a leading global communication infrastructure and service provider, that has established its operations in India, to tap into one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the world. India is also one of the world leaders in providing business process outsourcing services for global companies. Nokia Siemens has opened a Global Network Solutions Centre (GNSC) in Noida, as part of the company's response, to the growing trend for operators to outsource network management, and maintenance as a way to increase efficiency. |
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Title |
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Exterior of the building and sign (2 shots) |
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"Nokia Siemens Networks" sign in the reception area |
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People working on computer in the service centre (14 shots) |
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"Nokia Siemens Networks" sign in the reception area (2 shots) |
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6.GREATER NOIDA, UTTAR PRADESH STATE
ST Microelectronics, one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers, has a state-of-the-art design and development facility in Greater Noida, near New Delhi. It has been designing integrated circuits and developing software solutions in India since 1992. The manufacturing facility showcases the capabilities and competences of the technical community of India, in developing a portfolio of products and technologies. India has recently become one of ST's major centers, for developing key applications, such as set-top box (STB), DVD, wireless-telecom and multimedia imaging.
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Title |
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Exterior of the building and sign "ST" (2 shots) |
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People working in an office, using electronic equipment (26 shots) |
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Multi-storied office building complex (3 shots) |
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Company logo "STMicroelectronics" |
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Copyright |
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In order to illustrate the EU/India Summit which will be held on 06/11/2009 in New Delhi, the EC's audiovisual service has produced a video stock shot on India, which contains the following images:
- general views of the main cities of India: New Delhi, Mumbai, and Chennai;
- and areas of trade, aid, and high technology work in the subcontinent, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala State, and in Noida and Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh State.