Things Indians Love

Indians love street food. There is something about street food that Indians cannot resist. Indians can have a gourmet lunch at home and still eagerly wait for the panipuri-walla to arrive. Indians can have dinner at a five star restaurant and yet come out with the itch for a paan from the street vendor. Not […]

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Indians love to eat with hand. No spoon, no fork, not utensil at all - just god given five naked fingers and bare palm, and wrist and arm when needed. Tool making forced human to evolve, and Indians successfully resisted the urge when it came to utensils for the dinner table. Indians had time to […]

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Indians love to bare their chest in public. Granted this only applies to men - Indian women are too modest and prefer to bare midriff instead, but that is another post. Indian men expose their chest in styles, three to be precise: traditional, where men are completely bare waist-up except for dazzling accessories dangling around […]

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Indians love wall calendars. Not the desk calendar with funny or inspiring quote of the day, or the spiral bound agenda calendar for keeping business schedules, or the small personal calendars for people with too much free time to plan and write down everything. The billions of walls in India are adorned by calendars with […]

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Indians love queues. Despite the diversity, there is nothing that aligns all Indians like a long line. The image of Indians standing in a queue is the national symbol. In India everywhere you go, every situation you encounter, every activity you attend there is a queue waiting for you and plenty of Indians waiting in […]

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