I spent a month there in the late 90’s. I was not quite 21, and it made a huge impression on me. I met many wonderful people, fell in love with the food, and have maintained an interest to this day. In college (much later) I studied Sanskrit and Hindi, and also some classes about Bollywood movies. I would love to return someday soon. I have heard that it has changed a lot.

Whoa lots of bigot comments here.

I work in program in Canada where I see lots of immigrants, and many of them are from India. And they’re some of pretty good people I’ve met. Some were very humbling, some funny as fuck, some cool as shit. Rarely I’d see somebody who’s on the bad side. They’re very respectful of women here and treat others with respect including people with disabilities, even went out of their way to help.

And yes, they acknowledge some dark side of India but there are also beautiful parts that they all love.

As an Indian I would say India lacks in physical infrastructure - roads, public transport (although this is improving rapidly), etc. However having lived in Europe I will say that the technological infrastructure is very good over here - banking and payment systems (UPI is way better than the payment systems in Europe), online services, internet quality, etc.

I’m European. My first thoughts go to immense and diverse cultural heritage, pollution, amazing food, food sickness…

I visited in 2018. Fun trip. Lots of rain. Horrible drainage. Traffic was so bad that I ended up walking a half mile in knee-high water in the rain back to my hotel because the taxi wasn’t moving.

Oh, and I got a taste of what it feels like to be a minority. People not wanting to serve me or charging me more for services. My hotel tried to charge me for my room that my work had already paid for. Once they saw I was white, they asked for more money. I think everyone needs to experience this so they know what people have to deal with literally every day of their lives.

Oh, my favorite part was how bad the power lines were tangled up.

They assassinate political rivals in foreign countries

I don’t really know enough to have an informed opinion, but the first thing that came to mind is the news articles I’ve seen that Uttar Pradesh is very unfriendly towards women. There is an article that just got posted in the news community today that is pretty horrifying.

Irrelevant as european, i will never travel in probably. India to me its just a storybook word, a place that exist only in imagination.

As someone who actually lives here.

Good things include: nice food, diverse places to travel to, socialist programmes to support poor people so they don’t die of hunger, simple lifestyle, fast internet connection, okayish job market.

Bad things: a huge population means lots of criminals as well, politicians here loot the poor, the cities are fucked with lots of people, little space to hangout, public transport sucks, culturally regressive society in regards to individual, women and trans rights, people are becoming more violent, Hindu vs Muslim bullshit rather than focus on making things better.

I rate 2.7/5.

I kinda want to go there because of the amazing food and culture. But I will probably never go there, because I’m reminded of all the less great things about India considering pollution, poverty, heat and a guarantee of food sickness (which does not go well for someone with IBS).

Don’t travel during monsoon season.

It’s huge.

Well I don’t want to get all controversial about it but the thing about India is it’s a country in South Asia with a land area of approximately 3.3 million square kilometers and a population of roughly 1.4 billion. And that might be a hot take, but also we have to keep in mind its primary exports are petroleum goods and textiles. Don’t even get me started on how its borders are the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, and the Bay of Bengal.

http://durgasoft.com/

EDIT: /s

My entire knowledge about India comes from The Big Bang Theory. So I’m likely not the right person to comment.