The "REAL" India!

Ikuru

I thought it would be funny on a more sarcastic note to find out what you as a UBER traveller thinks is the stereotype Idea of "Real India" How real does it get? Ofcourse goa and most of Rajastan etc is not India, neither is anything that gets too much of a room in the LP.

So what is you stereotype image of real india?

Heres some examples.

I take my bike and go of to the countryside, find myself a bit lost and then we find a fammely who doesnt speak english, there christian and so are we (eh, well sort of maybe... ) so they invite us for dinner, we eat fish on the floor and we drink water from the green well and end up sleeping on the porch... Thats pretty "real" aint it?

Or being stucked in some worktown on the eastcost, full on cold rain outside, no westerners whatsoever to be found, a broken TV, dihorea, all my cloaths are soking wet, and the whole town is on strike (course a train was burned down). There is no food to eat, no shop, no place to dry my clothes or sheets, I have a bad cold, the streets are deseted and muddy... Eventually I do get in to a basment restourant hidden in a fivestar café, Im beeing served fine expencive food in my wet cloaths together with clean 5 star indians who sit around working as normal (they seem to be "above" the strike buisness here) Anyhow, that felt pretty "Real" too....

Real=the worst expirience or the utermost hidden subburb?

Whats your Stereotype Idea of "Real India"?

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SteveM

You can still experience your examples in either Goa or Rajastan!

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seventies'hippy

Think Mahatma Gandhi,,,,,,, That was the Real India.
Perhaps the stereotypical image in our minds of what we mean when we refer to The Real India.

Before satellites, Internet, laptops, TV, & mobile phones
For me the Real India is the 'Old India',,,,,,,,

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kadambari45

IMO Being stuck in a Bombay local train at rush hour is just as "real" as beng stranded in some remote place, Ikuru.
What you see anywhere in India today, is JUST as real as what you saw "back then". The reality of India is EVERYWHERE , in every place you go to.There's no escaping it-whether you go to Zanskar or whether you go to Silicon City, Bangalore. ..
wait a minute..what in your opinion IS "real" India anyway..

bijapuri

Well (he muses, debating on wether to add to this nonsequiterious nebulosity) . . . . Life's an illusion anyway for the majority of Ma India's denizens, so THEY don't think it's real . . . .
Perhaps "RI" is an internal process, whereby one begings to incorporste "indianness" into one's very being.
India began to become R to me when I realized I led the same life, ate the same food, had the same outlook, worked in the same job, had the same friends with the same interests, both there and here (Calif). Of course there are some details that are different, but they do not affect my core perception of the world.
sigh, all this thinking has made me hungry

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Nick-H

Before it became kids dressed like they just stepped out of a bollywood movie, standing around eyeing each other up in shopping malls, ears, of course, glued to their mobiles?

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ddevadatta

Real India for me is talking a walk down the street at 9:00 or 10:00 am in the morning and seeing people sweep the sidewalk, the sounds of the shutters of the local shops opening, and the dogs barking. I stop and wonder that India doesn't really start functioning till well after 10:00 am and from what I am used to have have already put in 4-6 hours of wook. Real India to a pace that drives me nuts but then that is India.

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SHIMLA

Spot On !

The real India is everywhere. Whatever one sees and experiences in the country is real - good, bad or ugly. There's no artificial India anywhere, with the possible exception of bollywood movies !

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kadambari45

"Before it became kids dressed like they just stepped out of a bollywood movie, standing around eyeing each other up in shopping malls, ears, of course, glued to their mobiles?"

In that case, the real England is women dressed in gowns a la Victorian style, with choking corsets, and men standing around watching the horse-carts go by?
Ummm.....And the real America would be people riding the Santa Fe trail battling the "Natives" ?

Times change, so do places and people. What you see today is what is as "real" as it can get.
End of Rant.

Nick-H

Well no, kadambari45, by the same token the real England is kids in baggy jeans with waistline close to knees, pretending to be American or Caribean, standing around eyeing each other, mobiles glued to their ears.

Yes; times change!