Thank You India

India is a huge country and has many faces. Over 1300 million to be precise. It is natural that opinions concerning India vary vastly. They depend on the faces one meets.

“How did you like India?” I once asked a German woman sitting next to me in the plane to Frankfurt. She was part of a tourist group. I had already noticed this group in the departure hall at Delhi airport, because all members, men as well as women wore the same outfit, different only in colours: shorts and T-shirt.

“What can one expect from such a country?” she asked back without really waiting for an answer. Probably she thought that everyone, like herself, would reply, “Nothing!”

“For me, India is the best country of all, and I have lived there for over thirty years”, I surprised her. She looked astonished, “Really? That long? Can you tell me what you like about this country?”