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Originally posted by crzychx
Actually, you are forgetting that there are some cities in India that are just as westernized as NYC. In fact, Mumbai is considered the NYC of India. Lots of clubs that play hip-hop, rock, electronic, etc. Bangalore is also very westernized & some fellow co-workers of mine that have been before me tell me that there is a lot to do there. The night life is a lot of fun & dancing is aplenty. And I'm not staying at a corporate campus, I'm staying at their version of a 5-star hotel (as I understand it, the hotel would be considered a 3-star hotel here in the U.S) & I'll have the weekends off work!
Now, I know that I've never been to India before but I've got a few friends that live there now -one of which is studying abroad there- that I can't wait to meet up with. I'm going to take their opinions (as well as those shared by my co-workers that have already been) before yours. Sounds to me like you haven't been to any of the westernized cities in India, or maybe you haven't been to India @ all?
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No, I'm not forgetting anything. Have fun though!
This is from Lonelyplanet (one of the largest and best travel guide companies):
Mumbai (AKA Bombay) is the glamour of Bollywood cinema, cricket on the maidans on weekends, bhelpuri on the beach at Chowpatty and red double-decker buses. It is also the infamous cages of the
red-light district, Asia's largest slums, communalist politics and powerful mafia dons.
Mumbai leapt into the new millennium determined to become the most populous city in the world by 2020, when it might hold as many as 28.5 million people. This upcoming stature is, however, of little comfort to the
50% of the city's inhabitants who presently still live without water or electricity. Nothing demonstrates Mumbai's deteriorating environment better than a recent report which claims just
breathing the air in Mumbai is equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes a day, hence the popularity of recently opened 'oxygen bars'. It's hoped that the satellite city of New Bombay, which is taking shape on the mainland, will relieve some of the pressures on the urban environment.
-Rudey