Last week, I had the opportunity to go to New Delhi in India to give a talk in a conference of social science associations in the Indo-Pacific. It was my first time going to India, and right after I told some close friends about my trip, I received one warning after the other. Wear a mask. Don’t drink water outside the hotel. Don’t eat street food. Beware of pickpockets.
If you spend enough time on TikTok, you’ll see lots of dramatic warnings about traveling to India. Some parts of my experience matched those, others challenged them. But at any rate, I wanted to go anyway because I’ve never visited that part of the world, and with a population of 1.4 billion now (larger than China) I felt I was missing out on many things. I had to see India for myself.
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