Why would you leave the West for India?

[joebloggs]

Today's India still has many problems - grinding poverty and malnutrition, corruption, poor infrastructure, inordinate amounts of bureaucracy sounds like liverpool


read more here .. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19992062

[Terpe]

If I was younger I would go.

I lived for quite a while in Jamshedpur about 130km from Calcutta.
Also in Bangalore, which was just great. Even then it was known as the Silicon Valley of India, and was home to hundreds of ex-pats from the west.
Bangalore is very highly recommended from my part. Very easy to integrate.

[grahamw48]

The more immigrants from the sub-continent returning there the better, as far as I'm concerned.
A pity Pakistan and Bangladesh aren't yet more preferable than a council flat in Bradford.

[Steve.r]

There is a lot of industry there for people like me who don't mind moving to follow the £££££'s. I can see why these people are migrating back, it makes sence.

[andy222]

The more immigrants from the sub-continent returning there the better, as far as I'm concerned.
A pity Pakistan and Bangladesh aren't yet more preferable than a council flat in Bradford.

[Iani]

India isn't Pakistan........big difference.

Indians in UK tend to near enough integrate, keep their own customs and cause next to no trouble whatsoever.

Again, big..................oh best not say anything more

[andy222]

India isn't Pakistan........big difference.

Indians in UK tend to near enough integrate, keep their own customs and cause next to no trouble whatsoever.

Again, big..................oh best not say anything more

Totally agree. I was looking at the fact of more houses being freed up.

[Moy]

well i love indian curry and thats for sure

[grahamw48]

I know the difference.
I've visited both countries....and Bradford...and Leicester.

The main difference of course is that usual pain in the neck subject....RELIGION.

[Iani]

Seems to be one of the "oh must not say, somehow un-pc" things, but under British India, they all lived together as one entitiy. Before the British, they had all these little kingdoms, but it sort of worked.
Along came independence and they wanted partition, and the particularly un-pc thing, is the fact this when all the glossing over is stripped away, it comes down to a racist hatred of their neighbour and not wanting to live with them anymore.

The forming of Pakistan caused immense human misery with people finding themselves on the "wrong side" of the new border, and countless died, the human cost in refugees was huge.

Of course, they have somehow managed to persuade themselves that partition was the fault of the British

So now, fast forward to the present. We have India an expanding democratic economy, and Pakistan a mess. Many Pakistanis wonder why, but won't even consider the elephant in the room reason