I understand your uneasiness with India up to a point. I've traveled around the world many times, lived in four different countries, and have emigrated twice as an adult, and never have I had as bad culture shock as when I went to India. It's just so different than anywhere else on Earth--and that's not necessarily a bad thing or a good thing, it just is. (Kind of like saying water is wet.)

Anyway, many best returns on Independence.