From the archive record
Everyday street scenes in Surat, Gujarat, India, featuring residential neighbourhoods, local traffic, and public roads. The footage shows multi-storey apartment buildings, parked motorcycles and scooters, utility infrastructure, and unpaved streets with ongoing daily activity. A herd of cattle moves through the residential road as motorcyclists and pedestrians continue their journeys, illustrating a common aspect of urban life in parts of the city. The video also includes a landscaped traffic roundabout with a central public sculpture, surrounded by cars, auto-rickshaws, motorcycles, commercial buildings, and traffic signals.An overview of Surat's residential environment, road network, and daily urban movement.