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Old October 16th, 2008, 3:49 pm
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I'd already asked this to him in the ''Ask Sirius" thread and he said he's always wanted to come here and would love to come sight-seeing with me
poor sirius....

p.s i'm sympathising with him for having to sightsee with lils....


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Accept the truth for God's sake!
Considering the fact that you have given us no links to back up your statement about North India being an awful place, I think sam_12 and the rest of the posters would have a hard time accepting such a potentially offensive statement.

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Yes,there are cases of rape,misbehaviour with women,etc.in other parts of the country as well,but more so in North India.
Do you have statistics to back this statement?

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Not to say there aren't good people there,but majority of the people you'd find on the road aren't exactly whom you'd want to make friends with.
And on what basis are you making this statement?

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There are more cases of crimes in North India especially UP,Bihar,even Delhi than anywhere else in India.
Again, statistics please.

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If you can deny that Bihar,UP,Uttaranchal,Jharkhand,etc. are some of the most backward states in India,then I will agree with you that North Indians are not that bad.
Being "backward" makes you "bad"?


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junika3 I would love to give you statistics backing my claims,but the problem is most of the cases are not registered in the above states,meaning statistically they don't exist.
The governance is relatively poor,and the ratio of mafia is relatively high.This makes it even tougher for cases to be registered and investigated.

And when I say bad,I don't mean inherently evil or something,but because they are backward,education and employment rates are pretty low which leads to an increase in crime rates.
There have been violent agitations in the past against mass inflow of people from these states in states like Karnataka,Maharashtra,Assam(where some people were murdered),Tamil Nadu,etc.
And talking to an educated and objective Bihari guy or a person from UP would tell you the extent of crimes and mafia raj in these states.


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Please take the serious discussion to the Indian politics thread in the DoIMC, thank you.


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I'm not from India, as such, but I've been there. Twice!


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I am from India.South of India,Chennai to be precise.I don't know Hindi.I am least interested in politics.The overall view about my country is its unity in diversity.I like my country's culture.


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I'm from Chennai as well Hello and welcome to CoS

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I'm not from India, as such, but I've been there. Twice!
same once when i was very young so, i don't really remember much and, i went back a couple of years ago, i have family over there so, my mum goes quite often It's lovely, it's just so vibrant


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Hi Indians....
Happy Independence Day....



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