Filth can never be attractive.

India prides itself as an ancient civilisation, going back at least 5000 years. Sadly almost no one, except illegal Bangladeshis, wants to come here. Last year we attracted a mere 6.84 million foreign tourists while tiny Singapore got 14 million and China was out of sight with 132 million. Foreign tourists bring foreign money so a flourishing tourism industry will boost our economy. So how to encourage more tourists to visit India? One suggestion is to build a huge Ferris wheel like the London Eye. That surely would be an absolute disaster. It will draw hordes of Indian families with their screaming children, who will be fed sweets and ice creams by their indulgent parents while waiting for their turn, and then vomit copiously when the wheel starts to spin. Where families come so will the chai wallah, the chaat wallah, the ice cream fellow, fellow selling aphrodisiacs and another selling cheap plastic trumpets for the children to create a racket with. Plastic tents will go up and the whole place will rapidly fill up with trash and smell of urine. Our politicians and civil servants visit foreign countries all the time with our money. Do they wear blinkers when they are abroad? Tourists will never visit a country with broken roads, chaotic traffic and filthy toilets. To enter any historical place, such as the Taj Mahal, foreigners are charged many times what Indians pay. It is shocking to be accused of racism by an American. As it is everything is extremely expensive because of extortionate taxes. Why should anyone want to come here if they can enjoy far superior facilities in China or Thailand at far less cost. It is not surprising that few tourists come here, it is surprising that so many do and some come repeatedly. India is a poor country. We have just refused a Trade Facilitation Deal at the WTO because our food security concerns were not addressed by the perfidious western countries. Why then are taxes so high, making everything so expensive? Because our politicians like to live like aristocrats, which costs a lot of money. Also because our munificent judges have ordered free drugs for a child with Gaucher's Disease, a genetic disease of metabolism. The child has lost 3 brothers and 1 sister with the disease so why did the parents give birth to him? The child should be treated but surely the father should be put in prison for child cruelty. We do not need gimmicks. What we need are wide roads, clean trains, nice hotels, clean food, clean bathrooms and helpful police at reasonable rates. Most of all we have to get rid of the noisy dirty crowds. Does anybody want to see foreigners holding their noses when leaving India?