Ayoung Indian woman in New Zealand has gone viral on X after posting a video showing her pristinely idyllic neighbourhood, and contrasting it with the incessant din and chaos of India. Initially, she praised their non-judgmental culture, where people mind their own business, but then spoke candidly, with unsettling description, of a deep-rooted and perennial isolation. If you hail from a country where jostling with people — aunts, uncles, cousins, colleagues, all of whose noses are deep in your affairs — no doubt, it’s weirdly eerie to never, ever spot a neighbour, forget about having a conversation. Rueing the lack of gossip and constant chatter we Indians are famous for, this young lady wondered and articulated what I have often felt in my limited interactions with Westerners. There’s a fundamental lack of curiosity about others’ lives. “Puri duniya gai bhaad mein, inko bas apne aap se matlab hai. There is no competition, koi life mein maza hi nahi hai,”........

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