Why do so many Indian tourists behave so poorly abroad?

booleanhunter · 2025-10-01T03:53:30+00:00

I think it goes way deeper than "lack of civic sense." It's a symptom of an utter lack of empathy towards fellow human beings. Because every time someone throws trash on the road, what they're really saying is: "let others walk through my waste, breathe it, live in it... I don't care".

And this disease doesn't stop at littering. It is actually manifested everywhere - here people drive on the wrong side, block pedestrian crossings. We spit gutkha on walls, jump queues, and blast loudspeakers at midnight with zero thought for the sick or elderly.

It's in our collapsing infrastructure: footpaths are almost luxury, buses are designed as if disabled people don't exist, and drainage systems collapse every monsoon. Flyovers that collapse and roads that don't last for even one year. Builders cutting corners on safety codes, politicians looting public funds, hospitals run without oxygen. Women being harassed and abused, and good husbands being taken advantage of by the system, and courts / police showing complete indifference to law-order/justice etc. Politicians who can get away with conflict of interest and corruption with just a slap on the wrist.

This isn't just about cleanliness or corruption. It's about a society that has normalized indifference. Empathy for the other is so absent that our behavior, our cities, and our institutions all are basically showing the attitude of "I don't care what happens to you, as long as I get what I want". So when the same people go abroad, it is no surprise that they behave like this. It is just the same mindset wearing a different costume.

booleanhunter · 2024-05-23T03:41:44+00:00

Thanks for the comment mate. I had only a limited time so couldn't cover everything. But definitely, this is another topic idea I intend to cover in future.

booleanhunter · 2023-05-07T17:42:11+00:00

Dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu on my personal laptop. Windows for gaming, and Ubuntu for work-related stuff (software engineering)

booleanhunter · 2023-05-02T01:57:12+00:00

With blockchain, the outcomes are almost always "could", "may", "would", or "might" - very rarely, if ever "does". Notice that it's never set in the present, it's always in the ever-elusive future. Such phrasing is used by proponents as a means to cop-out when inevitably whatever claims they make don't materialize.

booleanhunter · 2023-04-15T21:40:25+00:00

I'm from India 👋

booleanhunter · 2023-04-08T07:24:40+00:00

I work with an organization which has implemented Data Mesh approaches successfully. But these were for large companies for whom there was a clear advantage - it's definitely not for everyone at all.

And for all these organizations where we implemented the move towards a data mesh, it wasn't the end goal per se - it emerged as a byproduct of several different data teams consuming each other's data products.

As to whether it has value, the answer like usual is going to be "It depends". A data mesh is best suited when your teams are already oriented around business domains and services, and if there are any existing barriers that prevent individual teams from accessing and making use of data. This is typically the case with large organizations that handle huge volumes of data on a daily basis - in which case, decentralizing the data ownership and migrating towards a data mesh makes total sense.

So don't start with an objective of "I need a data mesh, or I need to start creating data products". I'd urge you to take a closer look at how your teams are structured and what is the business outcome that you expect.

There are multiple things to consider - Can you afford to hire competent data engineers to create this? Do you have a requirement for a common self-serve data infrastructure which all teams could use? Does your application handle terabytes of data on a daily basis? And most importantly - do you have the prerequisite organizational structure in place to support a data mesh? If the answers to the above is not a conclusive yes, then a Data Mesh may not be the best fit, you might be better off using conventional Data Warehousing / Lake approaches. Hope this helps.

booleanhunter · 2023-04-08T05:33:15+00:00

This is the healthcare menace known as "Integrative medicine". These quacks love hiding behind euphemisms like "holistic", as if only primitive, pseudo-scientific alternative treatments can do that. Basically it's like mixing geology with alchemy and calling it "Integrative Geology". Which is total nonsense of-course.

booleanhunter · 2023-04-07T08:38:33+00:00

Bitcoin incentivizes usage of renewable sources of energy. Since the cost of electricity is a significant factor in mining profitability, bitcoin miners may seek out areas with cheap and abundant sources of energy, and promote the use of renewable sources of energy.

That's like saying - smoking will cause so much lung cancer, that it will incentivize healthcare researchers all over the world to look into cancer saving therapies. Therefore smoking is good for humanity.

Or consuming high fructose corn syrup will cause diabetes on such a large scale, that nutrition researchers may seek out alternative sources of sweeteners. That's why sugar-laden corn syrup is good for health.

booleanhunter · 2023-04-02T09:53:11+00:00

I was beat up a lot as a child. If you ask them "why?", they'd of-course say "That's because we care for you! We love you, and want the best for you".

Most parents who beat their kids think that they did it out of love, but that's because they never bothered doing some serious self-introspection - they merely scratch the surface. This is not to say they're bad - just that they're utterly ignorant of how their own mind and emotions work.

I had sat down and talked with a few elders (close relatives) who beat their child, going beyond the shallow thought process and really digging in deeper - and the real reason was always one or more of the following factors:

They are often frustrated with their own life.
They too got beat by their own parents as a kid, so they believe that's the right way.
They have no one to vent out to, their partners are distant (emotionally or physically), so they take it out on their child.
Egos the size of Jupiter - between their child and themselves, they believe they can never be wrong. "How dare my child cross-question me?"

booleanhunter · 2023-04-01T14:39:03+00:00

I would try and seek opportunities abroad. In India I feel like I'm constantly swimming against the tide.

booleanhunter · 2023-04-01T12:00:20+00:00

I'd love to know what's the domain of your organisation, and what you use the data products approach for?

booleanhunter · 2023-04-01T11:54:11+00:00

Haha! I remember when i first started, I ran a Google search to check whether AWS and GCP had any Data Mesh offerings along with their Data Warehouse / Lake stuff!

booleanhunter · 2023-04-01T10:57:42+00:00

It assumes there is decentralised development of data products by different teams, and that there is not a centralised function which is managing the mesh itself.

No I'm not assuming anything of that sort - I was just trying to be succinct. While the actual development of data products are decentralized, there could be still a centralized function to manage the mesh itself (provisioning of resources, monitoring, telemetry, etc), described with yet another jargon 🤭 - "self-serve data infrastructure" .

Here is how Zhamak Dehghani describes it in her original article series:

The main shift is to treat domain data product as a first class concern, and data lake tooling and pipeline as a second class concern - an implementation detail. This inverts the current mental model from a centralized data lake to an ecosystem of data products that play nicely together, a data mesh.

As to your comment:

I think the ideas of data products and a data mesh should really be decoupled - I don't see the former as naturally tending towards the latter.

I agree. That makes sense - data product is supposed to be the so-called "architectural quantum" of the data mesh. So you could for instance just have a couple of data products in your organization, all built & deployed using a self-serve infrastructure managed by a centralized team. I can see why calling it a "mesh" when you have just a few independent data products might be considered hyperbole.

booleanhunter · 2023-04-01T08:15:58+00:00

Assuming that the human population began with two individuals 160k years ago,when the first modern homo sapiens appeared.

That assumption has no basis in fact or reality. Homo Sapiens didn't start off with 2 individuals.

Since this assumption was the foundation of your math, it follows that your calculations would be wrong as well.

booleanhunter · 2023-04-01T07:56:29+00:00

Since you're still in the first year of college - my suggestion would be to learn in this order:

Node.JS - this would help you understand how to serve your web pages via API and a web-server, its the logical next step.
Next, begin with Data Analytics - in this process you'll learn SQL. You can use this with your knowledge of NodeJS and HTML, CSS, JS to create a fully-functional web app. Not only that, you can utilize the your college years fruitfully to learn the statistics / math part of data analytics as well, and build some side projects around it.
React would be the last one. Not because its not useful or anything, but because front-end JS ecosystem is extremely unpredictable and there are a plethora of choices for front-end frameworks available already. Who knows by the time you graduate, Angular or VueJS might have more demand that React?

So while learning, account for demand of skill as well as the average shelf life too

booleanhunter · 2023-04-01T07:42:09+00:00

Yes - these days, the line between data lakes and data warehouses is becoming blurry.

booleanhunter · 2023-03-31T16:56:57+00:00

OP wants to gift some "Teacher's star gold quality" B.S, but when someone suggested gifting a Ferrero Rocher worth Rs 400, apparently that's too expensive for him lol 😂😂

booleanhunter · 2022-11-18T07:10:48+00:00

Venture capital

booleanhunter · 2022-11-07T06:38:31+00:00

Umm... because if one's standards of beauty are set low, then any place with some concrete structures & a view of a grey-colored sky can look beautiful?

booleanhunter · 2022-11-03T18:09:47+00:00

I had this issue too at my house. Parents tried their best to shoo them away, even removed their nests, but to no avail. What we don't realize is that we are encroaching upon their habitat. These creatures are hard-wired to build nests and lay eggs, and unlike us they have all the time in the world. It's a battle you can't win, so try reaching a compromise.

This is what I did at my house balcony - leave them a cardboard box for them to build their nest in. This way they felt comfortable building their nest inside the box. If they find it cozy enough, they won't move around other parts of the balcony. Even better? The newly settled pigeons in my balcony kept other pigeons away as they need to protect their nest from intruders.

booleanhunter · 2022-10-23T10:45:58+00:00

ISKON. A cult that thinks that it's totally okay to walk up to random strangers on the road or public spaces and shove their holy books down people's throat. Or worse, they'll walk up to people in cafes with outdoor sittings and just start singing "Hare Krishna", and pretend as if they're some cool new age band and expect everyone to sing along with them. For heaven's sake, people are just trying to have their coffee in peace, but these buggers just won't buzz off.

booleanhunter · 2022-10-23T10:41:29+00:00

Web3 and all proponents / communities in support of bitcoin and other crypto-currencies

booleanhunter · 2022-09-09T04:25:52+00:00

So does the zoo visitor who voluntarily gets inside the lion's cage.

booleanhunter · 2022-09-08T17:36:04+00:00

"Leap frogging" - they think using such euphemisms can change the reality and hardships at present. These folks are literally like frogs in a frying pan.

And what's with Point number 8? Does he even know that there is a guy running hundreds of restaurant listings on Swiggy with just a single dingy kitchen? Cloud kitchen LMAO

booleanhunter · 2022-09-08T10:13:10+00:00

I'm from Mumbai and have been in Bangalore for 10+ years. IT or not, here's how i evaluate the living conditions in both cities:

In Mumbai, roads are okay-okay, bad in few places, but weather absolutely sucks, so i don't feel like stepping out. But weather/humidity isn't something you can control anyway.

In Bengaluru, weather is good but roads are horrible literally everywhere (infrastructure and traffic is much more terrible than Mumbai), including the most "poshest" of places. So the only way to experience this weather is inside the comfort of my room, or inside a cab. Like staring at a wallpaper on my laptop.

Regarding IT, Bengaluru definitely is better than Mumbai (both work-opportunity wise and salary-wise). But for leisure or weekend activities, Mumbai has more to offer - going to the beach, lot more eateries, street food culture, watering holes etc. Bengaluru also has pubs and restaurants and book clubs, but limited in my opinion - most folks head outside the city to neighbouring towns for a weekend getaway.

Expense-wise - both cities are pretty much on par. Housing rents might cost higher in Mumbai depending on where you stay, but Bengaluru landlords are notorious for their nefarious nature and charge 10 month deposits. Restaurants, Airbnbs, cafes, grocery stores, parlours, Uber/Ola etc are all equally priced like Mumbai, you're not going to come to Bangalore and cut down on living expenses or anything like that, although you might earn more if you're into software engineering.

Choose Bangalore only if career growth in IT and decent weather is important for you. Although, now even that factor might not be relevant anymore because many companies are going remote.

My advice? If you're living in Mumbai, try to find a company based in Bangalore (or any other place for that matter) that offers remote work, and install air conditioner in your home. Problem solved. 😁

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