Free Advice Nation: India's Culture of Unsolicited Wisdom

🎙️ Your barber isn't just cutting your hair. He's fixing your love life, career, and cholesterol levels. In India, every service comes with life gyaan, No extra charge.

🫖 Uncle at the tea stall? Career counselor. Auto driver? Stock market analyst. Local chemist? Marriage therapist with free paracetamol. This isn't randomness. It's a social system.

🤔 Why so much advice? Because here, privacy is optional, but care is mandatory. People give advice because they feel responsible for you. Even if you're just buying shampoo.

📚 India's education isn't just textbooks. It's oral wisdom, passed over cutting chai and paan shops. Stories, lectures, and thoda unsolicited opinion, that's how we learn.

🤝 We confuse advice with connection. In small towns, advice is currency. A way to say: "I see you." "I've been there." "Let me help, even if you didn't ask."

⚖️ But not all advice is equal. The system has biases. Older > younger. Men > women. Louder > quieter. Unasked guidance can quickly become unearned authority.

🌟 Still, it fills a gap. In a country where formal mentorship is rare, informal consultants step in. Sometimes annoying. Sometimes useful. But always - always - present.

🔍 We don't Google "How to fix this." We ask our barber, our chemist, our cabbie. And somewhere between the chai and the traffic, a real insight does land. That's India's "advice economy."

💫 It's not CRM. It's not LinkedIn. It's real human bandwidth, running on nosiness, experience, and emotional impulse. Chaotic. Kind. Unfiltered. That's our default mode.