There is a Sikh regiment in the Indian army, so...

Plenty do actually. But it’s a pain because then some nice British man on the internet will tell us bloody Pakis (we’re all Pakis btw) how colonisation was actually good for us because we now have a railway network and the blessing of Indian bureaucracy born out of the English civil service.

The north is pretty bad. So is the south to be honest - except for Bangalore and Hyderabad.

I am from a major Indian city and I understand what you’re saying about the bandaid that these kind of measures seem like. But women need these methods right now while society catches up. These methods are available more to urban women who have more independence. Also certain parts of the country are more dangerous…

It’s largely cultural. In India, PC is a huge star but people don’t fawn over the way she looks that much. There are other women considered much hotter that kind of align to more Indian beauty standards. Priyanka is pretty but not striking to us.

I’m actually scared to come to the US because I may just slip into any of the Indian languages I know subconsciously.

There’s this story doing the rounds here in India about how this 3 year old kid dressed in traditional Assamese clothes, a part of a folk dance troop, kept stamping her foot. She just laughed it off. All the headlines are saying that the kid is taking revenge for colonialism. Sigh.

It’s for estates that house homes

I can’t believe you made me hate potatoes- my one true love :(

We have them here and can’t imagine being without them.

This is already a practice in India, where women don’t have their own space and many men are quite aggressive in their harassment of women. I did the daily commute by train for years and no woman would even think of this as something less than a necessity. If men got into the compartments, the woman would band…

It’s Urdu which is a lot like Hindi, so it would be “Hum hai Lahori".