Scientific analysis on India

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The journey has come to an end, finally. Yesterday had some goodbye beers with colleagues from work. This day has been spent on curing a sudden and totally unexpected headache but also by doing some packing. Feels good to get out of here.

Farewell

Tomorrow I will go to yoga at 6 as I still need to bribe the teacher with some chocolate. Tried that this Friday but nobody showed up, probably because it was raining heavily. Gosh. After yoga I'll have breakfast at 9, then around 10 I'll go to the bus stop and have a goodbye beer with Pyry in a nearby bar if it's open and then I'll catch a bus to Delhi.

As I am soon a master of science, I know how proper research should be done. I have therefore taken it as my duty to perform a long-lasting objective research on the Indian culture and country. This has actually been my main reason for being here - objective and comparative research in the name of science.

For the research I have - over time - gathered a list of elements from this country and culture and categorized them. The following list has gone through several iterations and various peer reviews before published here. The elements are categorized in two categories: what is good in this country/culture and what is not good in this country/culture.

Let's start with the not-good-in-this-country/culture list. In an philanthropologic order:

- Infrastructure. Roads are extremily crappy, during monsoon they are full of water as there are very few sewers, trains are horrible and most of the buildings are horrible.
- Dirt. Everything is filthy and flies are everywhere. They banned the selling of plastic bags in this state a month ago which is a nice idea but I don't see how it helps for cleaning the nature and all places of all the garbage.
- Cleaning. Washing dishes is usually done with no washing liquids. Getting your laundry done is always a win-lose situation: in general clothes get cleaner but there appear multiple dirt spots everywhere in clothes. Also 99% of the cleaning of floors is done with tiny brooms; nobody seems to have realized that if you attach an extension stick to the broom you wouldn't need to be on your knees when you are cleaning.
- Locks. Yes, even locks. I haven't seen a single door in whole India which would have a built-in lock. All doors are locked with a padlock and the padlocks are absolutely horrible. I'll attach a picture with explanation.

A typical lock. The golden thing rotates freely so you need to align it with the straight hole in order to get your key in. This feat requires both hands. And of course to lock it you need to turn the key and hold the lock closed at the same time. Why can't they use locks which you just need to press to lock it? God damn. And I have to do this opening&closing many times a day as the family requires me to lock my door even for breakfast.

- Meat and beer culture. Nonexistent.
- Unpredictability. I am the only one who doesn't know when yoga is cancelled due to an imaginary reason. Also it's a habit here that you don't make appointments - you just walk in to an office and everyone expects everyone to always have time for them.
- Cold shower. I haven't had warm shower for a month now. The water comes from the rooftop from a black can which gets warm by the sunlight. And now that it's monsoon the water is quite cold. There's a boiler in my bathroom and I asked local dad if he could turn it on: "no, it does not work during summer." -"well could you make it work? I have no warm water." "no, it's not working during summer. Want me to bring you some hot water in a pan?". No thanks.
- Food and it being unhygienic. At constant intervals I have brown showers from my ass for a few days. And I haven't even dared to try some of the more exotic food options, like buying from the streets. Tani tried and it was not a pleasant experience.
- Shouting. Everyone always shouts everything. Yes, it bothers even me.
- Manly joy. Guys holding each others' arms and hugging each other. It's not ok to touch a girl in public but guys can do whatever they want...

The list could still go on. This is a summary of the findings of the research. And below are listed all the positive results of the research:

- Mangos.