You may be missing India, when you ......

Oh that's soooooo true. I'm in south India for 4 months, and really missing the sounds and smells and food and people of north India. Its like a different planet here - can't get decent roti anywhere, and the spice mix just never tastes right. Still, they have vadai (wada) here - those round ones with a hole in the middle, so its not toooooo bad.

Hang on: New Delhi station also sells vadai! 5 for 20rs, with sambar. Now when is the next Rajdhani from Thiruvananthapuram ?

I'm currently in Kolkata and supposed to be moving to Paris in January (I currently live in London). I just want to stay here in Kolkata!!!

when you have the strong desire to shop for beautiful silk sarees

when you pull out your last bar of Chandrika ayurvedic soap* to sniff every day until you leave....which is on Jan. 6!

*and y'all know what I'm talking about!

*lol* I do! Mine is sandalwood soap and cardamom-scented lotion Been being stingy with it, til now!

(counting down with ya, Sama!)

Still using good old medimix and other small bars collected at various hotels ,profitable hobby

When you're down to your last bar of medimix and your last tube of Vicco toothpaste - need to go to India to restock!

When you buy an Indian flag at the $2 shop, and tell yourself you only bought it because it was a bargain.

When you start up a conversation with a woman you hardly know because she's eating idlis and then launch into the subject of missing Saravana Bhavan and how Sydney really needs one

When you go to see a "Bollywood" theatre show in Paris. As well as a Bharatanatyam show. And go shopping in Paris at Indian grocers for neem toothpaste.

They sell Chandrika here ... but I miss bazaars and ceiling fans!

now if only could someone help the indians here understand what u people are talking about...

really ?????

i like india because that's where everyone is, and that's where i get to be myself, but paris v/s kolkatta ???????

i wish india would become like spain. colorful and not fully 'managed', but little poverty and some order.

I fully agree with you.

Up would go the prices , it would loose its " exotic " claim .The stories that you can dine out on would become boring and the sense of adventure would be lost .For a westerner it is somewhere "different" and that to me is the pull

agreed,but as of now we don't even have the basic amenities say 24 hour electricity,education,health. At least the metros need to develop like Hong Kong or Shanghai-corruption and population are the bigest issues.Both Switzerland and Italy are developed countries and at the same time have managed to retain their values,culture and heritage.

I do not think India will develop in the way of Switzerland or Italy . As you have stated India has a large population made up of many cultures and a very strong religion ,it has a tropical climate which lends itself to dramatic occurrences , drought , flood and earthquakes are in there somewhere . The religious stranglehold plus the the tropical climate will lead it to develop in a different way not like Europe or the USA .