Please stop recommending travel to India. And to all Indians, I'm sorry.

**TL;DR: India is a horrible place to travel due to pollution, safety concerns, and severe poverty. Please stop recommending travel to India, and to all Indians, I am sorry for my country.**<br><br>I used to live in India. I am not Indian even though I have lived there for a couple of years. The best recommendation I can give you for India is: **do not visit India.** Go to any other country, just avoid India. India is the country with the least safety concern. Women are frequently sexually harassed, groped, and raped. And safety is not only an issue for women, men are also frequently robbed, stabbed, hit, and even killed just for a phone or a wallet.<br><br>India is frequently said to be the most polluted country in the world. It makes breathing extremely hard, and if you have breathing issues even the least amount of pollution can kill you. If you visit India just breathing could kill you.<br><br>The poverty in India is something I've never seen before, I have been to many countries around the world including many so-called "third-world countries", but none of them even come close to the extreme poverty levels in India. You will see children with no clothes begging for food, people eating out of dumpsters, and people sleeping on the streets with no place to call home.<br><br>Why I am sorry to all Indians is that most Indians have never been out of India their whole life. Many Indian people haven't even traveled inside India. And the sad part is that Indians don't even know how horrible their country is. Many Indians believe that India is the best country and India is just like any other country. But it's not.<br><br>Indians are also brutal towards their pets. Many stray dogs and cats are brutally beaten for no reason, and many stray dogs are poisoned to death. India doesn't have a functioning animal welfare system.<br><br>Also, if you want to go to India to try Indian food, please don't. Indian food is most likely the most unhealthy food you will ever eat in your life. It's so oily and salty that you will die after eating it. Many Indians die from eating Indian food due to heart strokes or other heart-related health issues. India is the country with the highest number of heart-related deaths due to the food.<br><br>**TL;DR: India is a horrible place to travel due to pollution, safety concerns, and severe poverty. Please stop recommending travel to India, and to all Indians, I am sorry for my country.**<br><br>&#x200B;<br><br>Edit 1: <br>I want to clarify something to avoid any confusion. Even though I have lived in India before, I am not Indian. Many Indians think that I am Indian even though I am not. Also, another thing to clarify is that I am not talking about all Indians, I am only talking about the vast majority of Indians.