What is it like for the businessperson who relocates to India who is accustomed to a Western lifestyle?
We offer a primer for your employees who are expatriating to India. What is it like for the businessperson who relocates to India who is accustomed to a ‘Western’ lifestyle? The following highlights some of the major aspects of living in India. Language On the roads, smaller yields to bigger More than 300 known languages are spoken in India, 24 of them by at least one million people. The official language of India is Hindi, spoken by about 30 percent of the population. There are 15 other official languages. Tamil is the predominant language of the south. In Kolkata, in the east, people speak Bengali. In Mumbai (Bombay), they speak Hindi and Marathi, and in New Delhi, Hindi and Punjabi. English is designated an official â associateâ language, but is the main language for business communication. Howeverâ as in any countryâ any attempt to speak the local language will be appreciated in social and business encounters. With so many Indian languages and dialects, misunderstandings do occur.
