A look at India today (snaps part-2)

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Images that present the India that is today, spreading across the diverse nation - be it the rise of their movie stars or their sports stars, their religious practises, or their political leaders.


Chairperson of the Indian Banks Association and Chief Managing Director of Bank of India T. S. Narayanasami presents a bouquet offlowers to Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on his arrival fora meeting with chief executives of public sector banks in New Delhi. Restructuring of stressed real estate and Micro, Small and Medium enterprises accounts is to form part of the discussions at the meetingof the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee with chief executives of Public Sector Banks - AFP/Prakash


Residents of Dharavi, Asia's largest shanty town, display posters and placards as they protest against the producers of film 'Slumdog Millionaire' in Mumbai. In recent weeks the movie's success around the world has been overshadowed by objections in India to the name, which some slum dwellers find offensive, its depiction of the lives of impoverished Indians and the treatment of the cast - Reuters/Punit Paranjpe


Bollywood actors Arjun Rampal, Karisma Kapoor, and choreographer Farah Khan, who are judges on the TV dance show 'Nach Baliye season 4' present the winners' trophy to Shaleen and Daljit after they won in the finale of the show - Reuters/Manav Manglani


Sculptures are seen at the Rock Garden in Chandigarh. The Rock Garden, which spreads over 40 acres, was built by Indian man Nek Chand from industrial and home waste and other discarded items - AFP PHOTO/ Manan


group of Indian rickshaw pullers wait for morning tea in front of a stall in Kolkata. After strong opposition, the Communist-led government of India's eastern state of West Bengal failed to ban the hand-pulled rickshaws in the city, considered an inhuman form of work. The State Assembly has not allowed the related bill to be turned into a law. The bill, seeking to amend the 87-year-old Calcutta Hackney-Carriage Act of 1919, was also aimed at easing to some extent, the traffic congestion caused by the slow-moving vehicles - AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury

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