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What about India

Visited India after four years, in Jan 2022 and had some thoughts… Felt a new kind of vibe in India this time. May be I did not observe it on earlier trips but there is level of surplus in India it seems that is incomprehensible to the naked eye. From food on the thousands of thelawalas(the current season was Guava) to the sheer number of food joints, to food varieties, to number of chais i had in a day to number of relatives and friends I wanted to visit to the number of political narratives, news items( 100 in a minute or something like that), to number and varieties of birds in Bharatpur bird santctuary, to number of patangs followed by lanterns filling up the sky in Jaipur on Makar Sankranti… and on and on and on… India is indeed a land of plenty.  It goes on , to the number of ads that Akshay Kumar appears in to, the level of pollution in Noida to number of Hotels to number of natural wonders, religious places on every corner… just every thing seems to be endless in numbers. T...