Inconsiderate India

"We should not make that which is familiar right, and unfamiliar wrong". It often strikes me how Indian behaviour may be considered as truly rude or inconsiderate, by our cultural norms. In many situations there are multiple solutions, and it seems India has settled on a different one. Take the scene when I enter a dark train waiting room where a few people, including a family, are sleeping before the midnight train. A group of young men enter, turn on the lights and set their phones to play some irritating Hindi music as loud and distorted as they can. This is just what is normal here, people can sleep through bright lights, loud noises, and even people walking within inches of their heads. Here the unusual is the person who can only sleep in the quiet dark.