I guess all Indians who have left their motherland and lived overseas for a while, reflect on the many differences between living back home and out here. The usual suspects include cleanliness, pollution, corruption, stress in day to day living, traffic, law and order, etc.
If I were to choose one word that best desribes the difference between India and Australia (the only first world living experience I have had), it would be complexity. Everything in India is so damned more complex.
It is an interesting quirk of this world that there is only one way to be born, but innumerable ways to die. Here again, the complexity and great variety of India shines through. Contemplating possible modes of death other than natural causes in Australia, one is restricted to transport related accidents (road/air). Hardly anything else comes to mind.
In India, though, apart from vehicular accidents there is a whole palette to choose from: terrorist attack, building collapse, flood related drowning, electrocution by sagging wires, communal violence, and more.
Just one more way in which India offers so much more variety to its inhabitants.
