Marcus In India - MGTOW

Apologies for the long absence. I have moved to India for business reasons and no longer have as much time to produce content.

Here are my first impressions of India from someone who has never been there. As these are my experiences, and India is a huge country, I would not take the account of India I give here as authoritative in any manner.


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Hey Everybody, Marcus here.

When I first started this channel, I was living in Ireland. Then I moved to Poland. Now, I live in India. As some of you may know I am a software developer and an entrepreneur. The move to India was aimed at expanding my company’s Bangalore office. As such, the move was motivated by business.

The good news is that business is good. The bad news is that I no longer have the time to put out content on the sort of schedule I have done in the past. However, that should not ruin our fun! Now that I have been in India for almost two weeks I would like to share with you the experiences of a westerner’s first time in India.
The very first thing you notice when you get to India is that India is full of minorities! Minorities as far as the eye can see. One would be even tempted to say that there is a majority of Indians in India but that is just silly. To consider a white guy a minority is just a contradiction in terms. The surprising quirk about India being a white majority country is how few white people, and foreigners in general I have encountered here. Though there are obviously areas of India where foreigners are common, the segment of Bangalore I am living in is not one of them.

No, I tend to see another white person every 3 days or so. Due to my rareness despite my majority status, people stare. They stare in the first case that, in comparison to the locals, my skin shines in the sun like one of those gay sparkling Twilight vampires. They also stare because I comparatively tall. What I did not expect coming to India is to find that people are so damn short. I am six foot tall. Though that is above average, I am not exactly a giant. However, I sort of feel like one when walking around on the streets of Bangalore. The men are probably 5’6 on average and the women seem like they are 5’ tall. Though you do see some taller people here and there you also see a number of people who seem even shorter than these average. This is especially true among the women. There are a lot of really short Indian women out there. Sometimes I look at the unarmed security guys guarding the various shops and think to myself: “I would destroy you in a fight with my mass alone.”

Outside of the staring, people are friendly enough. Considering I must be a strange curiosity in their day-to-day life, they seem quite amused when I start talking to them. What is not amusing, however, is the traffic in Bangalore.

You need to have a death wish to cross the street here. If I were to describe the rules of the road in India I would say that there are none; there are only loose conventions generally followed, but not always. But what do I mean by this? Well, let us take the most straight forward of traffic laws. Namely, that of not driving up stream to traffic. India, like the UK and Ireland, requires people to drive on the left-hand side of the street. I am familiar enough with this setup from my time in Ireland so I actually did not even notice it at first. What I did notice, however, is that driving on the left-hand side is mostly a recommendation.

What you will see is that guys on motorcycles will often ride their bikes up stream to traffic but near the sidewalk. This makes looking both way before you cross the street all the more important. The best assumption to hold is that traffic is coming at you from every single direction at the same time.

Though there are lanes marked off on the actual roads themselves, there are no lanes in practice. There is only empty road you can squeeze onto. Though it is not unusual to go into the oncoming traffic lane when overtaking a car on a one lane country road, I have never seen it happen on multi-lane roads.

Yet here in Bangalore you will have a road that has 2 lanes from either side and people will still overtake a car by driving into oncoming traffic. Drivers tend to be very aggressive. The traffic itself is a nice distribution of cars, motorcycles, and rickshaws. Due to the absence of lanes in practice and the relatively different widths of each of these vehicles, you usually end up with some crazy blob of vehicles in chaotic combinations when driving. This is quite terrifying at first and remains so until you get used to it.