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Apr 19th, 2008, 20:10
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Apr 29th, 2008, 08:10
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Don't go to India because....
 "Dont go to India and lose your sense of reality now...." |
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Apr 29th, 2008, 08:22
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...... but, once visited, does one ever look at things exactly the same way again?   
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We shall not cease from exploration and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started ...and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot Don't go to India ~ Pre-trip Warnings & Misconceptions?
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Apr 29th, 2008, 08:59
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Don't go to India because....
 Indeed! I'm going to sell my sense of reality and buy some roti. |
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Apr 29th, 2008, 12:03
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Lars Pohlmann
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Actually, a friend of my ex-girlfriend has been raped and murdered in Varanasi. My parents know that. I somehow understand that they are worried, when I go to India.
When I stayed in Manali, a tourist girl was raped there. The locals found the guy a beat the shit out of him. So when parents think that India is dangerous, it's not only a misconception. India *is* to a certain extend dangerous. Sorry didn't want to go all serious in a humour-thread. Nor should it prevent anyone from going there, it certainly doesn't hold me back. |
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May 16th, 2008, 16:02
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My Mother has just said that we shouldnt go to Hampi as they used to practice human sacrifice there and worship demons???
So if we go there this will rub off on us and we will start this too???(even if this is true) |
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May 16th, 2008, 16:08
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May 16th, 2008, 16:47
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Don't Go to India Because..
It's full of Indians!! And they really do think different.. Quote:
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May 16th, 2008, 20:28
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Maybe ask her to read up on Vijayanagara, as it used to be known. |
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May 17th, 2008, 06:28
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Great thread!
Here....I have one that might possibly be the most completely absurd reason out there.... In the recurring attempts of my delusionally paranoid parents, this time my mother actually said....... ready for it...... "Don't go to India because it's gotten so expensive in the last few years." I didn't know what to say. |
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May 17th, 2008, 16:54
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I think shes thinking of the Aztecs....
and she watched Passage to India where the girl got freaked out by the heat and temples... |
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May 17th, 2008, 17:08
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May 18th, 2008, 21:45
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My parents didn't seem to actually know where I was going so had no warnings about my first trip to India in 1975 !
 But they were very worried about the overland bus I was taking there. I called them from the Dover Ferry terminal to reassure them that I was not the only single woman and everyone was very nice--no "bad" people to harm me. Their only experience with an Indian person was someone who shopped in their small store and tried to bargain with them. That really upset them. They had never imagined anyone wouldn't just pay the price on the item! This was in the 1960s onward. Very few Indians in USA at that time. Actually, not much immigration from developing countries at all, as I recall. At least in the NY area, seemed to be mainly Irish!! I have no actual statistics, so I'm open to better information.Luckily, my brother-in-law had done an around-the-world hippy trip in 1970 and was totally enthusiastic & helpful. |
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May 29th, 2008, 02:00
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May 29th, 2008, 02:43
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 You'll be telling me you don't eat Vegemite next !
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