You’re Either a China Person or an India Person. . . Supposedly India. . . that far off place that for one reason or another is stuck in the western mind as “exotic”, “overwhelming”, “magical”, or even “scary”. When talking to travelers, young or old, the word India is always countered with two types of story. The first ones are horror stories of crowded bazaars filled with pickpockets, touts, mayhem and madness. Places where you have to have a tough skin in order to survive. The other stories tell of a wondrous place filled with colours, sights, sounds and smells which overwhelm your senses in such extreme ways that you undergo nothing short of a religious experience. Entering India I had a sense of anxiety, I was scared: would India be like everyone said? Would I
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