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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not go back to India. Hard in many ways.[/quote]

+ 1 Billion.

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I am Indian and am generally surprised when non-Indian people choose to vacation in India. I don’t know how they don’t know what they’re getting themselves into. I have family and cultural ties, and worked there for a few years during formative years for me. So I love it most of the time. But I wouldn’t go there if not for these reasons. [/quote]

I am Indian and I escape from the big cities as soon as I reach there.  I travel a lot but I do the luxury version of everything.  India is not for beginners. My favorite in previous years has been Rajasthan - the palace on wheels, Kerala, Palampur and Dharamshala.    But, then I do not go to big cities and assume things will be smooth, I avoid the worst of the worst and I depend on family and friends to have a really good time there, I pay my way to making things convenient there.  I laugh when I see westerners trying to stay in average hotels, use Uber there, travel on cheap tickets made for the poorest of the poor.  I stay in India and don't balk to pay European prices.  And for the same prices one can pay in any Western country for average services - I get more service, luxury and convenience - than anywhere in the world.

So much natural beauty to see, so much spirituality, family, weddings, shopping, Ayurvedic retreats, reunions, people, vibrant people, love and warmth...

My relatives in India come along with me, we go to lovely vacations and family retreats together and I foot the bill for everyone.  We go to our village home, we go for weddings, we go touring and travelling together -  and I pour in the money I earn here to better the economic situation of people there.

I have no illusion about how poor and dirty India is, but it gladdens my heart to see how there are more bubbles of prosperity there now than previous decades.  I love the new confidence and pride people have in India.  And I am shocked to see how supremely intelligent, resilient and innovative people are there.  I am glad that their hearts are filled with hope for the future.

I love India.  [/quote]

You sound so annoying. Poorest of the poor? The way you keep repeating it - it seems like you have a chip on your shoulder.

Are you the same one who brags about your PhD and how your kids are so great.[/quote]

DP, but I lived there for a few years for work and hated it.  When OP is sneering at people she sees traveling like "the poorest of the poor", this is an example of what the caste system looks like today.  The middle and upper classes in India rely on an extended staff and broader subclass of impoverished people they treat like just more of the mounds of garbage that little all the city streets.  OP sees herself as better than the majority in her own country because she is not "poorest of the poor"/the class that were the lower castes for so long.  And speaking of garbage, the reason you see so many Indians just throwing their garbage on the ground in Indian cities and public spaces is just an extension of this: they truly feel they are above "cleaning" and that it is someone else's job to clean up.  [/quote]

DP.  I live in India for several years as well, and have to (sadly) agree that this is a common attitude.  That Indian PP is unpleasant and why Indians get a bad rap.[/quote]

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