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I don't mean places like Bhai Jee or Dhaba UP (insert number). I mean places like the ones you might find in Noida 104, just thoda sa standard wali places.

Right now the only decent places I found are in Jp which I'm bored of and stellar fusion which is aight.

Otherwise it feels like too many cloud kitchens, usme se hulks burger is decent but also boring.

Noida - around 1 million. Cape Verde - 600k.

imagine if noida was an independent country we might have a chance to make the world cup knowckout round!

I was thinking about it and I realized I usually have no issues with civil political discussions irl with friends and family with differing opinions. But online it just seems like a completely different landscape where I start questioning if the person I'm arguing with is just an Indian with a differing opinion or a very racist and ignorant westerner.

Was recently on a thread on the usage of "gobar' (dried cow poop) being used on walls/floors to keep homes cool and such. Unsurprisingly most people were chiming in with their usual racism and showing their complete ignorance towards our culture. Talking about "not beating the allegations" and stuff.

Then I start seeing the typical "Indian here" comments talking about how this is some dumb practice that happens only in "cow belt" states and is encouraged by the BJP and Hindutva extremists and - well i was just very disappointed.

This shit has been a part of our culture for thousands of years and has nothing to do with BJP or any modern political thing, and i also don't think it's only a thing in "cow belt" states.

Also most of the western ignorance was unsurprising because when I was a kid I fel the same way when i heard about gobar being used so much because of course it's cow poop and poop is dirty. But then I actually went to a house with dried gobar on the walls and honestly its not even a big deal at all, it just feels like a rough cement finish and you can't even tell it's gobar. And if it keeps the house cool then who cares if it is cow poop.

So while i get the ignorance from these westerners who may have never seen such a house irl, but what about the Indians siding with them and attacking me? Are you really so sheltered you don't know about this technique used so commonly in rural India? Or are you just embarrassed by it and decide to distance yourself from it, and join ignorant people in shitting on your own culture and heritage?

Funnily enough, the only person defending me in that thread was someone from rural Missouri who mentioned they also use it for similar purposes and always have done, and that its not disgusting at all. Why does it take a westerner to do th same thing for Indians to be able to accept it?

Both are for your safety, both can be inconvenient. Both seem pointless until they literally save your life.

I've honestly seen enough people here do all sorts of jugaad to not have to wear seatbelts and bypass their cars beeping system - so I'm not surprised when I see posts like "why did this emergency alert need to disturb my sleep".

When you're out somewhere and there's a major storm approaching and heading home 15 minutes early can save you from flying debris and falling trees, it won't matter if it's 12pm or 3am.

And if it really is such an issue to you then almost every phone has an option to turn it off.

National Highways & Expressways Expansion

• Network Growth: The total National Highway length expanded from 91,287 km (2014) to 1,46,566 km as of March 2026.
• Construction Pace: Average construction speeds accelerated by 130%, rising from 12 km per day up to 28-35 km per day over the last decade. A peak record of 37 km per day was achieved in 2020–21.
• High-Speed Corridors: Access-controlled expressways and high-speed networks grew substantially—from a mere 93 km in 2014 to over 3,640 km operationalized.
• Multi-Laning: Stretches with 4 lanes or more grew 2.5 times, from 18,371 km to over 45,516 km.

As someone old enough to remember road travel in 2000s India, the difference is literally night and day. And the roads being built are high quality, not shitty roads just to get the numbers up.

Within UP it's even crazier - Delhi to Lucknow in 6 hours. Delhi to Agra in 3 hours. Delhi to Prayagraj in 8 hours. Delhi to Dehradun in 3 hours.

This is the first step of development reaching the massive rural populations of India. And it's also crucial to industry and trasnport in general - the US built their freeway system during the cold war and it's still one of their biggest assets.

I get critcizing the government, but I also find it weird when people glorify pre-2014 India as some paradise. India has come a long way in the past decade, and this is something you might need to take off your bias-tinted glasses to realize.

TL:DR: Skip to the bottom for points.

If you're on the internet long enough, and if you have the bare minimum ability to critically think, it should be fairly obvious that the hatred directed towards India and Indians is orchestrated.

It makes use of the rising anti-immigrant right wing movements gaining popularity in Western countries - but here's the funny part - these people started off with islamophobia, as that was the lowest hanging fruit and the most obvious target as it is islamic extremism that the West is most threatened by.

Yet for some reason, this has morphed into shitting on Indian street food, Hindu specific traditions and at this point it wouldn't be a stretch to say the anti-India racism is Hinduphobia.

And this is where i want people to try and think why - and the answer is a black pill I think every Indian needs to swallow.

We are all alone in this fight. In Western christian politics, the right wing hates Islam as its been a historic threat to their civilization. The left wing on the other hand counters this by supporting Islam, allowing it to flourish under their watch.

Hindus (and Indians) live entirely outside this spectrum.

And as a consequence of this Western liberal need to support Islam in order to oppose the right wing, there have been plenty policies which have led to mass-immigration and refugee intake from the middle east and other parts of the Islamic world.

Now these immigrants grow up partially assimilating with western culture - to an extent which makes them socially indistinguishable yet if you know any such immigrants, even second gen in europe, they end up being ideologically even more radicalized than their parents and family still back home.

In contrast, second gen Indian (hindu) immigrants try their best to lose any remnants of their culture or tradition - the lack of a strict religious framework like their muslim counterparts have means they have no deep connection to their roots.

So they end up being a group which hopes to be accepted by the native white people, but are still discriminated on the basis of their appearance and ethnicity. So they usually end up realizing its easier to be accepted by the liberal circles, even if it means betraying their hindu culture and values.

I have seen "hindu" immigrants in the west criticizing their own culture back home - it's common, if you've lived in the west you know this happens. Meanwhile, immigrants from the middle east and even pakistan will rarely publicly criticize their culture from back home - usually because they're still practicing muslims and this means they inherently believe the culture they had back home was superior to the one they have in the west (they are hypocrites as they enjoy western freedom while thinking this yes, but the mind is very capable of such hypocrisy).

So coming to the rise of anti-Hindu sentiment online - we're at a point where the entirety of the western world, and most people who use the internet, end up being anti-India by default:

1. The Islamic world through historic reasons and solidarity with subcontinental muslims.
2. Right wing Westerners through ignorance and racism - a natural dislike for an alien culture they can't make sense of.
3. East Asia through a) racism and b) CCP propaganda.

There's a reason why India finds so much in common with Israel, and even as someone who despises their actions and doesn't actually support them, it's not hard to see how they're our only natural ally given them being similarly disliked by Western racists and the Islamic world alike.

And this is the part that's so hard for so many to accept - Indian muslims are great people, but their religion itself is such that it practically requires state backing, as well as a belief of non-believers as being inferior - christianity and other abrahamic religions have this too, but they have liberalized with the modern age a fair bit. Many schools of Islam have as well, but the ones relevant to us in South Asia have not.

So this means a constant struggle for power between India's Hindu majority and Muslim minority, and while Hindus may have a majority in the nation, Muslims can leverage a much bigger global influence to affect Indian politics.

And the biggest weakness of Hindus still remains the same as it has for the past millenium - internal division. But unfortunately most are still too tunnel-visioned to see this big picture.

TL;DR (from claude):

• Online hatred toward India and Indians is orchestrated, not organic.
• It started as Islamophobia within Western anti-immigrant right-wing movements, but has morphed into anti-Hindu sentiment specifically.
• Hindus/Indians fall outside the Western political spectrum: the right hates Islam (and alien cultures generally), while the left supports Islam to oppose the right — leaving Hindus with no side.
• Western liberal policies drove mass Muslim immigration and refugee intake from the Islamic world.
• Muslim immigrants (even second-gen) supposedly radicalize further over generations and stay loyal to their origin culture, believing it superior.
• Second-gen Hindu immigrants, by contrast, shed their culture to gain acceptance, often criticizing their own heritage, because they lack a strict religious framework.
• The "internet default" is anti-India, driven by three groups: the Islamic world (historical/religious solidarity), the Western right (racism/ignorance), and East Asia (racism + alleged CCP propaganda).
• India's only "natural ally" is Israel, since both are disliked by the same groups — a point the author makes despite claiming to oppose Israel's actions.
• Islam, in the author's view, inherently requires state backing and frames non-believers as inferior; Abrahamic faiths share this but have liberalized more, unlike the schools of Islam relevant to South Asia.
• This produces a permanent power struggle between India's Hindu majority and Muslim minority, with Muslims leveraging greater global influence.
• The biggest weakness of Hindus is their own internal division.