The Misconceptions of India

India is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the world's largest/ populated democracy in the world. It is among the strongest ‘new nations’ of the world and its sustained democratic freedoms are the most unique in the world. But due to the development of the human mind in the modern 21st generation, lots of questions are being asked about the country. A few of them are to understand the development of the country, but the other questions are basically misconceptions or stereotypes about India.

One of the most common misconceptions is that India is a land of poor people and they don’t have adequate resources or in fact the money to fulfill their basic necessities. To clear this misconception anybody should just visit any one of the countless extravagant and posh marriages that happen in India. You can also see women wearing the heaviest jewelry in any marriage even if they are middle class or in the higher class. Undoubtedly, a certain amount of the population of India is poor, but to balance it out there are lots of successful billionaires and millionaires in the country. The most common business families of the country are the Tata’s, Birla’s and the Ambani’s. In fact many Indian tycoons have overtaken big companies across the globe, such as Lakshmi Mittal who took over the steel industry in the world. Now how about that?

Another common misapprehension is that most Indians are illiterate. Although India is recognized to start the basic university system of education by Taxshila and Nalanda being the first-born universities of the world, numerous people argue that most of the Indians today are illiterate. However, this is just one of the worst and common assumption. The literacy percent of India as per 2011 census is 72%. Also worth mentioning here that India’s higher education system is the third largest in the world, next to the United States and China. As per the various statistics the number of college graduates in India is above 50 millions which is higher than the number of graduates in UK and New Zealand combined.

The strangest delusion about India is that the food is very and always spicy. India’s food is enormously and tremendously diverse, with each state often having a totally altered cuisine. While much of India’s food can be spicy, the rest of the states are obviously not spicy.