From Bollywood to India’s state capital
The following are some of the India’s most important cities:
- Mumbai (Bombay): India’s Bollywood and financial capital
- Delhi : India’s state capital
- Bengaluru : India’s silicon valley also known as the garden city
- Chennai (Madras) : India’s car production capital
- Jaipur: the Pink City and home to the Hindu Rajput culture
- Kochi (Cochin) : a once an important international trade transformed into the gateway of the sandy beaches and backwaters
- Kolkata (Calcutta): India’s cultural capital known as The City of Joy
- Varanasi: India’s religious capital located on the banks of the Ganges and considered world’s oldest continually inhabited cities
- Shimla: once summer capital of British India within the Himalayan foothills