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The things attributed to the regular Indian folks appears very "made up" ...

• rjurney 17y ago
  In my experience, real things from regular Indian folks do too. Much of Indian culture is simply unbelievable :)
  • vijayr 17y ago
    like? :) can you give examples? :)
    • rjurney 17y ago
      Like the whole 'dunk Ganesha' thing, for one. Teams of young men group together and compete between groups to buy/build/decorate the grandest elephant man to dunk in local ponds and rivers. Thats surreal.
      • vijayr 17y ago
        yeah, that is great fun. sometimes those are huuuuuuuuge, would take months to make and paint, only to be dunk in the sea. apart from polluting the water, its great fun.
        • rjurney 17y ago
          Haha, I know I love it! But its very bizarre to an outsider stuck in a traffic jam because of the big elephants.
          • vijayr 17y ago
            Yes I agree. A whole lot of rituals would seem funny/bizarre to westeners. An american friend of mine found "arranged" marriages very very strange, he couldn't comprehend it at all. But it has been working very well for centuries in India. Similarly, when I came to US, I was shocked at the size of shopping malls, had never seen such mega malls in India (India does have big malls, but nothing compared to the ones in US). Also I found the pointless lawsuits very amusing (like the guy who sued his drycleaners for some 50 mil USD). Well, I guess these differences is what makes life interesting :-)
            • rjurney 17y ago
              Indeed :)