Why Only India From South Asia?where R Pak,sri,nepal,bangla...etc,etc

[ssmith]

Originally posted by kelticwizard
As regards Nepal, it should be pointed out that India has 37 times the population of Nepal. So even if the two countries have a completely equal level of interest in diy Audio, there would be 37 Indians for every Nepalese interested in the hobby.

Indeed.

But India also has top notch Internet backbone in the main cities, unlike Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka. There is also a propotionately larger middle class in India, and a 'techie' culture that I've never seen in other south asian countries.

There are also huge DIY audio communities in Thailand, South Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan... there's a language barrier there, and they have their own (very active) forums.

[7n7is]

Islamic authorities in countries that have a majority of muslims often discourage music. I saw something in the news about the Iranian government changing their policies recently about what music will be broadcast on their TV and radio stations. In one article I can hardly remember, a record store owner in Iran discussed what he felt about it.

[SY]

I've removed several posts that violate the "no politics" rule.