I have always been interested in contemporary India, the cultural and physical change that it is going through. I felt it was important for me to document and photograph these places that I see, the things that I observe and the culture that I feel. While conceiving this project I realized that, while India was already identified as a hi-tech world, it lacks infrastructural support, creating a space and environment that is a unique mixture of modernity and antiquity..."
"A new skyline, a new energy in the country. The Pitampura television tower in Delhi is a metaphor for an evolving modernity..."
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"Photographer Bharat Sikka is as good a poster boy for India Shining as Ratan Tata or Shah Rukh Khan. You are as likely to find his photofeature on the industrial heartland of South Korea in
the pages of Time magazine as his study of a supermodel wearing the latest in haute couture..."
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