MalikX
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my medical insurance sucks right now. i'd be dead probably or in extreme medical debt. Thanks for the heads up. Crossing that India off my list forever.
Anybody here ever been to India??
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my medical insurance sucks right now. i'd be dead probably or in extreme medical debt. Thanks for the heads up. Crossing that India off my list forever.
Just caught up in this thread. Most of what was said by the people who aren't total a$$holes is true, but be careful about generalizations. Even the generalizations are true, but the degree to which they're true varies wildly from place to place. It's much more diverse than the USA from state to state.
Some temples, tourist areas, train stations anyplace with a lot of trees can have a lot of monkeys. They tend to avoid the densely populated areas. Don't openly carry food or water when you're near them. And if you try to scare them off, better be ready to go all the way, because some of the big ones do not give a damn whatsoever.
Even Sccit's friends type in all caps.
You know how when someone is talking to you, and you just say, "Uh huh, uh huh" to show that you're following?
That head bob is their version of the same thing. It also means, "yes" as well as "I don't know but I will pretend that I do" and "The real answer is no but I don't want to disappoint you so I'm claiming yes".
Indian women wear make-up, but there are plenty of places where you will hardly see the slightest square inch of torso skin, and other places where women are fully covered.
And Indian women are beautiful too.
And there are parts of India that are dry, but plenty of places where they drink. There are a lot of people who only drink at private parties, though there are plenty of clubs too in all the major cities.
You were probably just shunned because you're annoying, and all your Indian friends weren't inviting you to the actual parties.
Some temples, tourist areas, train stations anyplace with a lot of trees can have a lot of monkeys. They tend to avoid the densely populated areas. Don't openly carry food or water when you're near them. And if you try to scare them off, better be ready to go all the way, because some of the big ones do not give a damn whatsoever.
Even Sccit's friends type in all caps.
You know how when someone is talking to you, and you just say, "Uh huh, uh huh" to show that you're following?
That head bob is their version of the same thing. It also means, "yes" as well as "I don't know but I will pretend that I do" and "The real answer is no but I don't want to disappoint you so I'm claiming yes".
Indian women wear make-up, but there are plenty of places where you will hardly see the slightest square inch of torso skin, and other places where women are fully covered.
And Indian women are beautiful too.
And there are parts of India that are dry, but plenty of places where they drink. There are a lot of people who only drink at private parties, though there are plenty of clubs too in all the major cities.
You were probably just shunned because you're annoying, and all your Indian friends weren't inviting you to the actual parties.
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ShenJingPoQi
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My aunt married a Indian doctor and lived in India, I just remember her husband calling and saying I'd your aunt doesn't return to Canada soon something bad will happen to her
GetInTheTruck
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Yes, not everywhere, but there are monkey gangs complete with leaders who give their henchmen orders and all that. One thing I noticed in India is that the animals seem to operate on a higher plane of intelligence than other places. You can walk by a pack of like 15 stray dogs and they won't even fukk with you, it's like they got better things to do.
It's true that the guys on the top have their stuff in the offshore accounts. But depending on who you believe, 25% or 40% or 60% of the entire Indian economy is black money. And a lot of that is from people who aren't even close to big enough to go for offshore accounts - cops and low-level government officials raking in 60,000 ($1,000 US) in bribes a month, local gangsters, company middle-management, etc. The number of guys who had hundreds of thousands cash in black money stored in their closets and buried in the ground is huge.
Now, is this going to actually get people like that? Or are they just going to pay their own bribes to bank officials and government officials and find other ways to launder the money so that it gets transferred before the deadline? I don't think anyone really knows. But it's definitely hurting the economy this month, and making day-to-day life for a lot of working class people pretty rough.
That don't make no sense at all.
There are a million reasons why health is poor in India. Sanitation, poor health care systems, pollution, poverty, mosquito-bourne diseases, and on and on.
Blaming it on vegetarianism is some
crap.And they suck at the Olympics because most of the country is poor, the country's Olympic commission is a farce and athletes aren't supported at all, there isn't a big culture of sports competition in the country, and the one sport everybody does love and India is internationally competitive at is cricket, which isn't played at the Olympics.
Indian men's teams used to dominate in field hockey in the Olympics and won the gold like 8 times in a row, but that's not as big a deal anymore. There's a little bit of interest in boxing, wrestling, badminton, and soccer, but the support systems are still weak.
When was the last time you went to Mumbai? It's become incredibly developed. A lot of it is reaching the level of other Asian megacities. I agree that you have to be a pretty seasoned traveler to hit some of those other big cities but the neat stuff is in places like Goa, Kerala, and the Himalayan states anyway.
The main gripe with Indian food vendors is that they handle food with their bare hands..and in a place where people shyt in the open and use their hands to clean their a$$hole with water and no soap you'd be crazy to try the food with our immune systems.
I hated seeing them handle my chapattis and breads etc with bare hands at the hotel..It was a buffet and i noticed even the afghan guys staying there would be touching a pile of bread rummaging through the entire lot with their bare hands trying to pick the slice they wanted
The food
Indian food is the only one that does vegetarian dishes good enough to keep me coming back
The best meat dishes imo are Goat biriyani (which is spicy rice and goat meat) and kheema naan (which is naan bread stuffed with mince meat, herbs and spices and cheese)
Indian food is the best food in the world.
Thai food quality actually got reformed by the government, especially in Bangkok, because they rely so much on the tourist industry. As far as "underdeveloped" countries go, Bangkok is probably the safest place to eat in the world. The average American could eat there every meal, every day, for a year and maybe get sick once at most.
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Diet leads to high levels of diabetes according to him. And we're talking about Indians with money who I work with not the poor.
Uncle Kingpin
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Yeah I been to India....
Pros -
the temples looked amazing visually
Cons -Everything else.
Pros -
the temples looked amazing visuallyCons -
Everything else.
Effects of colonialism 
What can be called a "slum" in India varies a lot.
One of India's wealthiest families live in this palace
That whole building for one family
Living like that in front of the most deplorable poverty
It's definitely possible to stick to upper class areas. You don't have to walk through slums if you don't want to. You'll be surprised at how some of the slums are directly next to upper-class areas though.
That one of the biggest issues I have with the Indian mentality. Class/caste solidarity is so strong that, like Sukairain pointed out, people can be wealthy as hell living next to people who are barely surviving, and 99% of the time the wealthy people don't even give a damn. A lot of the fancy high-rises where the wealthy people live even have their own slums right next to them, where all the maids and drivers and such have to live. There's a ultra-liberal "help the poor" subsection in India, which is mostly secular, and there are some Communists and some well-meaning Christians. But the majority of the wealthy only care about their own family first, and then maybe their caste, and it's not going to stretch past there.
Of course, most wealthy Americans just handle their "overcompassion" by making sure they live somewhere where they don't have to see the poor people, so it's not like they can cast stones.
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Techniec
Drugs and Kalashnikovs
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