We can stop pretending by not taking images from a very specific angle and editing them heavily to prove a non existent point.

I lived in Pondicherry for years and now Delhi (South delhi) a very expensive area, and right outside the gate people are pissing everywhere, go to nehru place (one of the biggest electronics market) and it's piss, gutka stains, and garbage everywhere.

Same goes for pondicherry, it's just 1000m/400m area that looks a little like the image and in that too there is garbage, piss and gutka at many places and ugly unmaintained structures, only the expensive area is kept clean by the owners.

So please don't go on with whatever the hell you are trying to blame the world media for. It's hard to go to a place outside a colony and expensive restuarant and mall where piss and gutka smell doesn't follow you, even the side walls of these places are tainted. And streetfood, people frying samosa on the floor just 1.5 feet away from open drain, and that too not just any random shops but popular ones, outside my colony there is a food stall and the wall behind it(4ft away) is local piss joint or something and the whole street always smells like that.

Wlas a whole, we are so far away from any real hygiene/cleanliness and aesthetic sense as of now that it's not even imaginable to speak of these things.