I want to add two more here.<p>1. India != Hindi. It's just that most people speak Hindi not that everybody knows Hindi and it's not a national language, as many people would think. According to Indian constitution there's no national language, but there are 22 scheduled languages including Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi etc.<p>2. India != Bollywood. There are other film industries in India besides Bollywood. Checkout this wikipedia link: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India</a>
I'd guess that India doesn't appear on a whole lot of people's "places-to-visit" lists, but it really should.<p>I spent 11 days in India last December, and was utterly enthralled, repulsed and fascinated in about equal parts. It's an eye-opening experience to see how the majority of the world lives, and Indian culture and architecture is wonderfully rich. I definitely plan to go back again, as I was only able to scratch the surface of a tiny bit of southern India in 11 days. I'd encourage anyone else considering it to go.<p>Shameless plug: Here's the blog post I wrote about my trip.<p><a href="http://jasonlangenauer.com/2012/12/india/" rel="nofollow">http://jasonlangenauer.com/2012/12/india/</a>