Why do the British love India so much?

The food is just divine.

I don't think the Brits wallow in the filth when they go there.

India is my favorite place to holiday.

Because, OP, Spain isn't exotic enough.

Seeing the dead bodies lining the shore of the Ganges, would make me faint. No kidding.

That is just disgusting.

Because they feel so fucking guilty of what the did to it. Like stealing all the riches and making slaves of the people.

It's the home of Cliff Richard and Engelbert Humperdinck

It's a sex holiday destination for women over 50.

Insecure Brits love to feel superior to others. India provides one billion reasons for Brits to continue their superiority delusions.

The Jewel in the Crown (TV series)

The Jewel in the Crown is a 1984 British television serial about the final days of the British Raj in India during and after World War II, based upon the Raj Quartet novels (1965–75) by British author Paul Scott. Granada Television produced the series for the ITV network.

They don't, OP. Where are you getting this from?

Historically it was because even the lowest middle class British man or woman could be a pukka sahib or memsaab.

Seriously - someone, anyone answer why I should go there. Everything I’ve he heard is horrible, and EVERYone gets diarrhea or food poisoning. Ugh. Not enough to bother.

India is a fabulous place to visit. There's a lot of poverty, for sure, and filth, but you're not constantly wallowing in it as a visitor. The food, the history, the temples and the people are amazing, sweetest people in the world. It is also the most colorful country on Earth. If it didn't take almost 2 days to get there from LA I'd go again and again.

Where did you go and what did you see, r14?

I think it's a case of being intrigued by something so different from what you've experienced . Britain 's climate, architecture, and food are a 360 from India's. I remember reading an anecdote about how many rich Arabs love London and actually enjoy the cool cloudy climate and rain because it's such a break from the unrelenting heat and sun of the Mid East.

The Brits are pouring into Goa but other than than I rarely have encountered one while traveling in India.

They exaggerate their influence in India and also the Indian influence on them, which is probably higher right now than it ever was during the Empire.

Really, it was a project by a small group.

They like the insincere fawning of the locals on them for their colonial oppression.

We get treated like royalty and we can treat them like shit! And everything's cheap

r8 It seem among the males in South Asian societies ( India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) there is this popular niche fetish involving "aunties" . Undesirable fat middle age white frau can easily get a dick down there ( and cheap too )

I spent two weeks going around Rajasthan earlier this year and it was wonderful. Great food, characterful hotels and interesting sights. I did not get sick. Lots of tourists from all over the world, but not many Americans of course.

I've been to India 8 times and got sick on about half the trips. I always stayed in really nice hotels, never ate street food and always drank bottled water. The source of all the illness is the water. It contains microbes most folks digestive systems can't handle. In spite of all my efforts, I still got sick. The poverty in India is pervasive and in your face all the time. The slums of major cities are endless. All that being said, there are many beautiful things about India. Some wonderful sites to visit and the shopping is plentiful and super cheap. However, traveling around is not for the faint of heart. I have no desire to return, but I have some wonderful stories from my visits.

[quote] It seem among the males in South Asian societies ( India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) there is this popular niche fetish involving "aunties" . Undesirable fat middle age white frau can easily get a dick down there

Haha that reminds me of Jenny and Sumit from 90 Day Fiance. She's 60 and he's 30.

She moved halfway around the world, from California, for that Indian dick.

Too bad he was already married!

[quote] I've been to India 8 times and got sick on about half the trips.

[quote] The poverty in India is pervasive and in your face all the time. The slums of major cities are endless.

[quote] However, traveling around is not for the faint of heart. I have no desire to return, but I have some wonderful stories from my visits.

This is so interesting. Why did you go there so many times, and why don't you ever want to go back?

Can you explain more about "traveling around?" Is it not for the faint of heart because of the infrastructure, or because of the people, or because of crime, or what?

[quote] I think it's a case of being intrigued by something so different from what you've experienced

I was going through some p;ictures of India, and found this.

I think it's so amazing that looking at this photo, the buildings in the background have probably been there for over 1000 years, and most likely looked exactly how they do today. It's like viewing a scene straight out of history.

And as an American, yes it is completely unlike anything I've ever seen before.

I mean, we have historic buildings, but nothing as old as this. And also the architecture and just the entire look and feel are so different from what I'm used to seeing in buildings and scenery.

It's very exotic. However, I still would only like to view it through photos, as I have no desire to go there.

Looking at this photo, you probably couldn't tell if it's from the year 2019, or 1419.

That could either be a good thing, or a bad thing.

Because the British are so trashy it makes them feel right at home.

As a Brit, I'm not sure it's true we 'love India'. Yes, Indian cuisine is huge here, but India isn't really a top travel destination for us. Goa is popular but that's not really like the rest of India.

The British relationship with India is less as a popular travel destination, and more of a colonial relationship.

I think that most Brits associated with India are of the older generation, and they had to travel there as part of a colonial duty, and not for leisure.

Nowdays, it truly is all about SPAIN.

The British have "colonized" Spain, without actually having officially colonized it.

R30 There are 230k Brits living in Spain, most of whom are retired. The population of Spain is 48 million. That's not much of a colonisation.

[quote] the buildings in the background have probably been there for over 1000 years

Quick googling tells that, if I got my facts right, they were built around 1750.

I couldn't even finish Slumdog Millionaire, let alone visit there.

Honey, just go to Europe if you want to see thousand year old buildings.

Nice tits on the guy in OP’s photo.

Having enjoyed The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel a friend went to visit India. She came back saying she didn't know where they shot that movie but she never saw anyplace as clean as that!

Filth!

Indian people are amazing. I have met wonderful people and jerks in every country I have visited but most of the Indian people I have met are super nice, polite, smart. Just awesome.

R36’s friend was Hyacinth Bucket.

I love lean young Indian men.

Wasn't there a survey done, and Indian men were found to have the smallest cocks on Earth?

To understand India, you have to completely change your mindset of what you think the world is. So much ancient belief and tradition permeates everything.

Sure there's tons of poverty, but there's also lots of happiness.

[quote] Wasn't there a survey done, and Indian men were found to have the smallest cocks on Earth?

I laugh whenever I read that. The two Indian-American FB's I've had in recent years were actually huge down there.

India is the birthplace of diarrhea.

This clip from Seinfeld was hilarious.

Two people from India were trying to convince Elaine not to go to India.

"Did you know it's the only country on Earth that still has the plague?"

ROFL!

I just got back from a holiday in India and was surprised I didn't see more poverty. I went all over too. The only bad thing I encountered was the air pollution in Delhi.

I beg to differ R45

The Seinfeld video at R45 is over 20 years old, R47.

The news about the Plague in China, is fairly new. Like, from this week.

India still has leprosy, too, if I'm not mistaken.

Travellers to India - where did you eat? Street food? Hotels? Restaurants?

I ate at all three places. I started off a bit cautious and ate only in the hotel but branched out from there. I did get an upset stomach the first week there that lasted a few days.

Not British, German and Love India.

At it's worst it is like SF or NY with many homeless beggers but at the best some of the most beautiful places in the world with extraordinary food.

AND I like men who are hairy as fuck with small cocks and India abounds.

Is it true that the whole country smells like poop?

Woah! So many ignorant posters here.

First things first : Ganga is NOT lined by corpses! What the hell! Some people do spread the ashes of loved ones after cremation in Ganga because of their personal religious beliefs but that's about it. Nobody is dumping their entire intact loved ones in the river.

Some diseases like Malaria, dengue etc happen here a lot more than the West(where they are negligible) but if you take precautions - bug spray, appropriate clothing - you WON'T get them.

There is a lot of poverty and slum areas but there are lots of nice places too. The history of India is more interesting than most other countries and it's exotic for an average Brit/American - yes, more than your yearly Cabo trips!

Drink filtered water - all decent hotels offer that and eat food from good places and you'll be fine. Gays here screaming diarrhea when they haven't been to India once😂 And look maybe someone did get it - but you could get it eating food in your own country if you are not careful about where and what you eat.

Some Indians - like middle and lower classes - are obsessed with fair skin! So you will get treated extremely well even if you are a bug eyed chav ,as long as you are white.

Everything is cheap - once you convert dollar to Indian rupees. You can shop as much as you want without guilt. The markets are amazing and you wouldn't want to leave.

It has tons of problems but for a tourist - It's heaven! Cheap, exotic with lots of people treating you like a demi god.

r25 - The reason for my 8 visits to India was because of my job. My company did software engineering in various cities in India. The reason I don't want to go back is that I've seen all the tourist highlights and I'd rather visit new places than to go back to old ones.

Because I would travel for sometimes two weeks at a time, I would often take a day or two away from work to play tourist. As a result, I visited the Taj Mahal (actually twice), saw several cities in Rajasthan (the desert state near the border with Pakistan), visited Kathmandu, Nepal, and visited several cities on the Indian coast near Chennai. I also saw some tourist sites in and around Hyderabad and Bangalore. I never visited Mumbai or Calcutta because most of the software industry is in other cities. Most of the travel to different cities was by plane, because the roads in India are really bad.

Traveling by car in cities is very slow. I've never seen worse traffic. I told many people who were traveling with me that they can learn a lot about India by just looking out the car window. India has never obsoleted any mode of travel, so you'll often see ox carts carrying goods in the middle of cities. For fun, look at Indian traffic on Youtube.

Indian infrastructure is bad and unreliable. When we visited the suburban campuses of software companies, they provided their own infrastructure: power, water, and security. The local utilities were the back up to their own (the exact opposite of most of the world).

We always ate at either the hotel, the vendors' offices, or nice restaurants. Given the lack of sanitation, eating from street vendors would have been a guarantee of stomach problems. Most Indian food is blazing hot with spices, so it helps to have a cast iron stomach.

Hope this answers your questions.

Do you think QEII is pissed that she didn’t get to be Empress of India? Do the Indians regret being so hung-ho about independence since there’s so much poverty and crime ever since the British left?

[quote] Nobody is dumping their entire intact loved ones in the river.

That is absolutely not true.

There are tons of pictures online of fully intact bodies along the shores of the Ganges.

I just chose not to post those pictures, because they're graphic and really gross.

But all you have to do is google it, and you'll find those photos.

R58, but haven’t they been doing that for (presumably) thousands of years? And India’s population is still growing...so maybe it’s good for the river?

bc british people love visiting countries that were their property

There's a whole other India some of you are missing - the India of wealth and glamour and HOT guys.

Personally I love watching how cruelly their children women and animals are treated. And nothing is more chic than watching Temple elephants perform through torture. India is sooo beautiful.

Their caste system is abominable!

R26

1000 years?! Lmfao Try 200 maybe

Indians need to work on how racist and homophobic they are. It’s a fucked up society. I have many indian friends who say the same thing. They have a long way to go. I blame all of their problems on the British, but the corruption that’s pervasive in India has allowed it to flourish.

British people love to slap their subjects.

My neighbors are a wonderful Indian family. The elderly parents moved to the US in the early 1960's and are in their 80's now.

Even they are shocked at how populated India became in the intervening years. With the overpopulation came increased poverty and squalor.

That said, having visited India a decade ago, I found it pretty amazing. The cities are developing rapidly--much of it is very modern.

[quote] There are tons of pictures online of fully intact bodies along the shores of the Ganges.

That doesn't even make sense. The Hindus cremate their dead. It would make no sense to throw bodies into the Ganges

Deceased pregnant women and children are not burned on the ghats at the Ganges river. Instead their bodies are weighted down and released into the river. The belief is children and pregnant women are already pure and do not need the burning to accomplish this. I was just in Varanasi and spent many days near the river and didn't see a corpse floating but I am sure they are there.

Lots of the men are really good-looking imo. Unfortunately there is widespread tinymeat

Is...is that man in OPs pic brushing his teeth ????

R69 I prefer the tiny. I find them really hot.

[quote] is that man in OPs pic brushing his teeth ????

He is.

That's part of why I am so put off by India.

I'm sure that the native people don't get sick, by using the water of the Ganges to brush their teeth.

However, any Westerner would probably be dead within hours of doing the same thing.

The Ganges is a sacred river to the Hindus, and believe the water to be pure. Hence, they bathe in it and drink from it as they think it will free them of sin and help facilitate moksha. However, we all know it is the most polluted river in the world. Tradition!

In a wealthy suburb of Bombay, my ex and I thought we saw a hedgehog. However, it turned out to be a rat!

R67 My understanding is that poor people might not be able to buy enough wood to ensure that the body is completely reduced to ashes.

There ARE dead bodies in the Ganges. I mean just google it. Indians also believe not to interfere in people’s suffering bc theyre fulfilling their karmic destiny and to interfere brings ill upon you. I’m so over India and their backward thinking. I love the few enlightened Indian friends I have and know that not every Indian is this backward. I also hate that we give passed on behaviors bc of religion and/or tradition. Fuck that.

If the river is so fucking sacred, clean it the fuck up!

I hate religious people.

Don't brush your teeth with the water. Use bottled water for that purpose.

If you must ask OP, you'll never quite grasp the allure of India, despite the best explanations. Perhaps it's time you've popped over for a visit, and see for yourself.

I don't care for Mandarin food.

And I wouldn't care for a Mandarin grandchild.

Shortbread?

Would India still have these problems if they still had an Empress?

These I never know when I am looking at pictures from India or from San Francisco. They seem to be turning into each other.

No r81. Having a tiny plump woman who is a million years old as your monarch magically solves all your ills.

I have been there a few times, but not recently. There is, indeed, a certain smell that assaults you as soon as you enter the jetbridge toward the terminal at the airport. Their "highways" are nothing like Western expressways at all!

I was at a dinner party recently where someone said "I have a new boss"

[long pause]

"He's Indian"

Everyone at the table groaned. LOL