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.
A country full of people that absolutely have to get off the plane RIGHT NOW! The plane is back on the ground! Why aren’t we off the plane RIGHT NOW! Nevermind the fact that it’s still moving, we have to get off NOW!
Getting worse thanks to the news I receive being a drip-feed of violent gang rapes and increasingly worrying politics. I’m sure that’s very biased and incorrect, but I wish I heard better things.
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.
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.
Damn new racism just dropped: Yokels who’ve never been there wanna bash an entire nation and culture based on its government. Shouldn’t be surprised Lemmy is already overrun with those disgusting fucks. Europeans are as racist as Canadians.
It’s unfortunate that their infrastructure isn’t great right now. It’s unfortunate the inequality in their society right now. They are still recovering from what England did.
Nevertheless, it is the home of some of humanity’s greatest culture. Amazing food, beautiful people, wonderful aesthetics, fascinating languages. Spiritual home to some of the most profound philosophy and religion humans have ever created. Amazing flora and fauna too.
Everything about India is incredible. There’s just a lot of work to do.
Shhhh… you’re not allowed to point out anti-Indian racism on internet forums.
Seriously though, it’s amazing how many people can’t see how they use the same fucking rhetoric talking about Indians that they themselves would immediately condemn being used against any other population.
India was systematically robbed by an industrialized, kleptomaniac regime less than a century ago. And today they are working to position themselves to be a major world power in the future and fans of colonialism and Western hegemony can’t stand it.
Yep, afford to the people the same dignity that you would afford to the population of any other country with a bad govt. Govt can change, people are a large and varied collection and not a monolith to describe in a singular method.
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).