I just came back from India, and I regret how badly I misunderstood that country for yearsโฆ
someone intentionally wanted me to
Reading the comments under this post, that is exactly what people who have never been there think India is, so sad.
A few things worth knowing before you type another comment or watch my video;
It is huge oh my goodness๐๐
For a human brain to comprehend this, it is almost six times the size of France.
For East Africans, Put Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi together and India is still nearly twice that. Glaciers at one end, tropical beaches at the other, desert in the west, and rainforest in the northeast that holds the record for the wettest place on earth. All of this runs on a single time zone๐
1.4 billion people, there is one Indian in every six humans alive today. I also found out that this Country has 22 official languages and Hundreds more spoken every day.
The zero you used in school came from India, I bet you knew this๐
Now this is part that should stop you and make you think there has to be a deliberate smear campaign against India.
Think about how many people you know who have travelled to India for treatment - A heart operation, cancer diagnosis, a transplant of something. Somebody in your country, your family or your church or your office has made that trip.
In 2024 alone, India treated around 7.3 million foreign patients.
India supplies roughly half of all the generic medicine Africa uses. It makes around 60 percent of the world's vaccines, and around 70 percent of the vaccines the WHO uses for essential immunisation. The jabs Ugandan children get almost certainly came from there.
In 2001, when HIV treatment cost over 10,000 dollars a year and almost no positive African could reach it, an Indian company dropped the price to around 350 - By 2017 it was 75.
Now letโs look at your plate of food - India is the largest producer, consumer and exporter of spices on earth. Around 90 percent of the world's turmeric. Black pepper is native to Kerala the region I spent over 10 days.
Your pilau, your chai, your chapati. The breakfast you ate this morning has a link to India.
You cannot reduce a civilisation like that to a punchline because an Olympics bid annoyed you, pure ignorance and biasโฆ they have issues just like any other Countries, but this comment section is something else.
I regret not knowing India sooner, I recommend you go and see for yourself.
You come through the Great Gate and it is just there, dead centre, framed by the arch. Everybody stops walking. Every phone goes up at the same time.
People have been doing that on this exact spot for nearly four hundred years.
Go once.
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Humayun's Tomb, Delhi, finished 1572. The Taj went up sixty years later and borrowed almost everything from it.
The part nobody mentions: the first one was paid for by Humayun's widow. The famous one, a husband for his wife. Same idea, reversed.
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India's foreign ministry flew in 2 content creator from each of 19 countries to look at the place for ourselves.
I am the Nigerian one.
Ten days. Started at Red Fort.
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People connect with the version of you they discovered first.
So when the work starts changing, it can feel strange to them. I get it.
But an artist is not a screenshot.
The whole point is to keep becoming. If the feeling is real, it will still find you in the new sound.
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war closing hormuz. naira under pressure. strikes coming. and someone in Nigeria just shipped a product today
resilience from the inside doesn't look heroic. it just looks like Tuesday