Tfw I am unironically fascinated by India

>tfw I am unironically fascinated by India

I wish we could talk about it as a country (its history is fascinating) without getting memed by twelve year olds.

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if it's so fascinating why did it lead them to start shitting on their streets

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Seriously is nobody interested in their history?

no

Sure. Did you know that the indus valley civilisation had better sanitation and infrastructure than the modern day state of India?

daily reminder
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nah but india's history is pretty interesting desu, haven't really looked into it tho because of job.

go visit there if you like it so fucking much

their country is disgusting

how so senpai, have you been there

I am desu. I would like to visit, but friends of mine have gone before and they say it was absolutely horrible. It stinks everywhere, and when people are not trying to mug you, they're groping your girlfriend.

Maybe they will get their shit sorted out (hue) in the 30 years or so and it will be worth a visit.
Atleast their president is anti-muslim so the country will hopefully not get islamised.

You should. It's great, and ancient.

I have. I liked it a lot, even if some of it was pretty horrible. It's a really good example of a country with fucking terrible cities and lovely outside of them.

>It stinks everywhere, and when people are not trying to mug you, they're groping your girlfriend.

Bombay and Delhi (and presumably Calcutta) are exactly like that. That's why I'd recommend avoiding them as much as possible and going to comfy rural areas.

>Atleast their president is anti-muslim so the country will hopefully not get islamised.
You need to learn about hindus, son.

>comfy rural areas.

The parts where they string up little girls after raping them? Nah m8, plenty of other countries with history to visit.
It's just too much of a shithole. It bugs the fuck out of me that my gf wants to visit Africa someday, I'm slowly talking her out of it though. I could die perfectly happy not having visited any of earth's various shitholes.

I know they're backwards as fuck, but to tell you the truth I don't want to know any more. I already hate mudslimes so deeply... I don't think topping it up with additional hate is healthy anymore.

Holy shit. Honestly get an Indian friend that knows English and Hindi, that'll show you around.

English is actually pretty common here (at least where I stay, in Hyderabad). Most of the middle-class know it. Of course most of the Indian exposure to whites have been through Hollywood and porn, so yeah, take that as you will.
The southern Indian cities are pretty decent. I've been to Bombay once (for a wedding) and Delhi (visiting a friend), and Bombay is fucking terrible. It's way too crowded. People are nice though, but that might be because I share the same skin colour.

Delhi on the other hand, people are rude as fuck. Metro system is probably one of the best, can get to anywhere easily for cheap. But the rickshaw guys are cheaters. They charged me Rs. 80 instead of Rs. 50 (like they promised), twice.

tl;dr if you want to come to india, get a guide/friend that knows /good/ english and *insert local language here*, and preferably hindi as well.

That doesn't happen as often as you think.

I was travelling solo so I didn't have any real help, but you pick up shit quickly. I found that I went from stressed as fuck to chilled out when I decided to travel up to the mountains. I love the Himalayas so fucking much.

A lot of guys try to scam you, it's true, but even in some of the bigger places you could find some guys who were alright. Your middle classes are decent people.

>The southern Indian cities are pretty decent.
Like in Kerala?

Can anyone give me a basic rundown of pre-colonial Indian history? I know a little bit about the Maurya Empire and the Indus Valley Civilization but that's it.

Try reading about Shah Jahan

Haven't been there, but my mom has several times and she says it's bretty gud, said the beaches were to die for. I was more talking about the metropolitan areas, like Bangalore and Hyderabad (where I live).

want to go to himalayas sometime before i immigrate to a western country desu

Go to /his/ mate Sup Forums thread for bantz only

Word, thanks.

You honestly should. It's not that expensive really, other than getting there. You can do mountain treks for not too much money, or just hang out in comfy towns and drink tea.

Hey Britbro, I too am pretty interested in Indian history and culture, as I am in Tibetan culture. Might be that it's just too alien and unique for us westerners to just let go. Sadly, it is indeed not the safest nor cleanest place on earth to go to.

Ever read on Kailash?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kailash

>When he asked one of the Garpons of Ngari whether Kailash was climbable, the Garpon replied, "Only a man entirely free of sin could climb Kailash. And he wouldn't have to actually scale the sheer walls of ice to do it – he'd just turn himself into a bird and fly to the summit."

That's some tight shit right there.

I agree on the whole. There's something mysterious and unique about their culture and customs. I'd love to visit Tibet properly some day, I've been to the places in India where there are a lot of Tibetan refugees, but it's not the real thing.

It might sound dumb but I really liked the game Far Cry 4 for its having that sort of mountainous place filled with monasteries as a setting.

.... They still practice the CASTE system..

A CASTE SYSTEM!!!

Plus they can't even poo n loos! How can you be fascinated by such barbarism?

You better hurry because the chinese are pretty efficient at eliminating tibetan culture and building generic chinese cities populated by han chinese all over Tibet.

I remember reading original texts by western explorers in the 19th century, must have seemed a rather mysterious land.

I recommend checking Sichuan in China, parts of it are like Tibet but without the political unrest and the Chinese giving a bit less of a fuck. Basically, what said.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India
Start here and follow the links for a start

I want to visit Kashmir one day. My friend told me that it really is paradise on earth.

I am too and I feel the same way, either bombarded by memes or accused of being an Indian

Honestly though I find it to be a fascination counterpart to Europe, considering it's arguably the spiritual center of the world.
Not to mention it has such a pervading sense of history, with thousands of year old buildings/ruins seeing regular use today or being overgrown and impacting the animal world.

Makes me feel bad that it's such a shithole now

I'd worry about bandits/terrorists in the mountains

I don't mind danger in a new place, but not stupidity

>want to go to himalayas sometime before i immigrate to a western country desu
Come to the US

Poo in loo

I'd like to swim in the Ganges I it wasn't so filthy

Sri Lanka has all the things people like about India, without the shit running down the streets and gangs of rapists. Buddhists are more chill than Hindus too.

Isn't there an ethnic conflict going on in Sri Lanka right now?

That's hilariously wrong

>right now
That is probably a pointless distinction.

I'm only interested in sikhism

North has some. No more intense than the ethnic tensions in America though.

Sikkim is a state mate

wow what is it in that pic? some temple or something?

wtf i love pajeets now

Wasn't it just an independent mountain kingdom forcefully annexed in the 70s and has more in common with Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet than India?

>haven't really looked into it tho because of job.
what's your job if i may ask?

Honestly India looks pretty cool and seriously underrated, also diverse as fuck from one state to another
But if could go to any country right now there are a lot I'd choose before India

Forcefully as in using soft power

This, and memes aside the poo in the loo meme is not without basis.

My dad said when he visited Delhi for a business trip he arrived at the office and had to take the stairs up cause the lift was broken. He said there were piles of shit and piss all up the entire thing, making him gag. None of the street vendors or even chefs at restaurants wash their hands properly after wiping the shit from their ass with them, so you're pretty much guaranteed to ingest a decent amount of feces which will render you incontinent for the next week as you shit and vomit your insides out. Not my cup of tea personally.

the part where they were conquered by a trading company

Yeah and my dad works for nintendo

I didn't see that in Delhi, and only saw real filth in some of the absolute shitholes I ended up in like Bhopal and Aurangabad.

POO

How witty. As expected of American posters.