It is exactly what it is. Poverty tourism. Tourists are deliberately taken to slums and poverty stricken places as that is what they wish to see. And no I don't blame the tourists alone. There is an entire industry that works around poverty tourism. There are tour guides in India who know exactly what the tourists are after and they lead them to the filthiest of places (some are deliberately kept that way) so they can take their photos and publish it on the net and the guide earns his buck. Only the lucky few tourists who manage to break out of the clutches of these pesky poverty tour guides get to experience "real India".

But what the hell? I don't understand why anyone would want to do that...

you chose a pressing problem which the country is trying to solve and used in a smear campaign to prove your view. I will throw another number to it : many European countries rank worse than India in per capita rape numbers. http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/rape-statistics-b... . you might want to throw in the cultural hindrance to reporting rape but that is everywhere and increases count for every country.