Some people from our church did a mission trip to India ten years ago. The pictures/videos they took were almost beyond belief. Absolute filth everywhere they went. One picture I’ll never forget - a group of Indian men sitting in a huge vat of cow excrement because they believed it had medicinal and spiritual powers.
That sounds like a load of BS.
“our church did a mission trip to India ten years ago. The pictures/videos they took were almost beyond belief. Absolute filth everywhere”
India can be a real culture shock for Western visitors - perhaps the most shocking on Earth. Defecating in public spaces is like the national sport, trash is typically just piled on the roadside until someone finally throws a match onto the pile, and foodborne illness is rampant. Lepers can be seen begging in public.
Different parts of the country are quite different though. You can see all kinds of things, incuding billionaires in Bombay, with their Personal skyscrapers topped with helipads.