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A Chinese Social Media Documentary on India's Environment, apparently made in 2025, has now surfaced on SM. Interestingly, at 1 point, they have shown actual footage of Mumbai. But don't let that Deceive you. A significant portion of the footage doesn't even appear to be from India. It's a classic Propaganda Video. They have taken real issues like Pollution, Poor Sanitation & Waste Management, "Exaggerated" them to Extreme Levels using questionable statistics & presented India in an extremely negative light. They portraying India as dirty, backward & hopeless, without showing anything Positive. What's more concerning is that this "doesn't seem to be a New trend". There appears to be a pattern of using footage from Bangladesh & falsely presenting it as India to damage the country's Global Image. Here is the translet subtitles of it :- " How bad is India’s environment? We usually don’t mock it… until I saw the warning sign at their garbage mountain so planes don’t crash into it. That garbage mountain is so tall it’s called New Delhi’s Mount Everest. New Delhi alone gets 1.7 million respiratory cases a year from pollution. The air stinks. Come back from India without getting sick and you almost feel embarrassed to admit you went. Why is it so dirty? Let’s talk. It starts with the Ganges — their “mother river.” The saying goes: drink a bowl of Ganges water and you’ll understand Indians. They use it for everything: washing clothes, bathing, cooking, and even going to the toilet. After people die, it handles the burial too. They made their own mother river sick. Coliform bacteria in the Ganges is in the millions — basically sewage. Tourists often come back with amoebic dysentery. “But I ate at nice restaurants!” Doesn’t matter. The Ganges irrigates 40% of India’s farmland and supports half the population. A lot of restaurants cook with that water. Chemical plants dump waste straight into it. Now 70% of India’s surface water isn’t safe to drink. So why do Indians drink it and seem fine? Because a lot of the deaths from the water never get reported. Water pollution causes about 30% of deaths in India. Out of every 10 people who drink it, at least 3 get seriously sick or die. Then there’s the garbage. One dump is the size of 40 football fields and over 60 meters high — with a warning sign so planes don’t hit it. It was built in 1984 and was supposed to be full by 2002. It filled up early and they just kept using it. India has thousands of dumps and over 800 million tons of garbage. In a few years the garbage might outnumber the people. The toxic gas from it equals the exhaust of 350,000 trucks a year. Some people actually live off the dumps. They wait for trucks and dig out metal and copper to sell. One guy accidentally set a dump on fire and the smoke poisoned nearby villagers. Authorities tried to stop people from picking, but it’s how many survive, so they still sneak in. Get caught and you get beaten. They finally decided to clean it all up. Locals just laughed. After four years the garbage hadn’t gone down — it had gone up. New Delhi can process 8,500 tons a day but produces about 15,000. So it keeps growing. India also basically evolved away from toilets. Open defecation is normal. There’s even a joke that their aircraft carrier nearly split from the biogas of too much shit. You can see it on main roads. They planned 32,000 proper public toilets. After the money got skimmed, many turned into open-air ones — or just a cloth and a bamboo pole. The saying is: if India can land on Mars, then maybe they can fix their environment. Fixing it is about as hard as landing on Mars. This is the story of India’s environment. " @MEAIndia @PMOIndia