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What do you love/hate the most about India??


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Old Nov 13th, 2002, 17:18   #1
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What do you love/hate the most about India??

Love: great variety of vegetarian food; ethnic variety; low cost accommodation (outside Calcutta/Bombay); culturally rich; shopping for cotton fabric; herbal medicine; pharmaceuticals (no foreign patents); English language book publishing industry; liberal visa entry (six months); excellent train coverage of country; easy languages to learn in the north (compared to tonal Thai and Chinese).

Hate: men who haven't learned how to walk on the sidewalk without bumping into others' shoulders, men and boys who won't get out of my face when I am interactig with their female sisters and neighbors; many travellers I meet in India are really into drugs (I can barely tolerate coffee), are homosexual or asexual religionists (I don't care but I can't talk about girls with them and I am really not interested in how good the hash is in HP); boring Brahmins I meet on trains who won't shut up.

Conclusion: Indians are aggressive and outside tribal (& Buddhist?) areas it is a male oriented culture. India is strong on religion and weak on sex. It is rare to meet travellers who are equally at home oggling the go-go dancers of Patpong (Bangkok) and enjoying the awesome sculpture of Elephanta.
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