Polish model Dominika Patalas-Kalra compared her first India visit with life a decade later. Her video highlighted rapid changes in payments, transport, connectivity and delivery services.Polish woman visits India after 10 years (Photos: @domipatalas/Instagram) A Polish woman living in India has shared how much the country has changed over the past decade, pointing to everything from UPI payments and new airports to faster roads, metro links and doorstep deliveries.Dominika Patalas-Kalra, a Polish model who works in Delhi, shared the video on Instagram, where she compared her first visit to India 10 years ago with what she sees today.“I came to India for the first time 10 years ago, and I was looking completely different, and I think India also,” she said, before listing some of the biggest changes she had noticed.She began with digital payments, recalling how almost everyone relied on cash when she first arrived.
Today, she said, people routinely scan QR codes and pay through UPI. Air travel was another major change she emphasised.
Dominika pointed to the many new airports and improved facilities, adding that she could now fly from Poland to India in around seven hours, without having to travel through other countries.She also brought up the transformation in road infrastructure, asking viewers to imagine travelling from Delhi to Dehradun in just three hours. What once seemed difficult was now possible, she said.
Shopping, too, had become far more convenient. “10 years ago, I had to go to shop to buy whatever I want. Right now, it's just five minutes, and it's at my doorstep,” she said.She went on to highlight the expansion of metro connectivity, including the Delhi-Meerut route, which she said could be covered in around 50 minutes.
New trains such as the Vande Bharat and the arrival of new apps were among the other developments she mentioned.Calling these changes proof that “India is changing so good”, she ended the video by wondering what the country would look like another 10 years from now.Watch the video here:The video prompted several users to share their own observations. One person remarked that even foreigners could notice the difference in India, while some people living in the country seemed reluctant to acknowledge it.An Indian living in the US said they were surprised by the changes they noticed during a visit home, adding that India's 5G speeds, digital payments and delivery services felt faster than their American counterparts.Another user pointed to the growing number of flyovers, six-lane highways and airports, saying that every visit seemed to bring a new infrastructure development.- Ends