And they stare....

Sooo... have a mentioned that they ( the indian people) love to stare.....I mean LOVE, obsessed, in plain view...never trying to be discreet about it, wide eye men ( and sometimes women) who will even stop everything and anything they are doing just to stare! Its impossible to avoid.....from buying a water, to taking a picture, to eating fruit it just doesn't matter..I could be doing nothing and still they would be inclined to stare. Its a weird, unknown sensation to be watched by hundreds of inquisitive, interested eyes all the time and I still haven't gotten used to it. So one hot and sticky afternoon in the market hoping to gain some valuable insight, I asked someone "why?" His response, while vigorously bobbing his head ( another interesting phenomenon found only in this culutre) was " yep, that's what we do!" And the simplicity of that answer sums up this country.....it just is, no reason or explantation needed, no logic that we can understand......it just is!