It’s not an easy task to shift from one country to another. And when moving to the first world nation like America, Indians learn some really quirky life hacks to keep up with the rapid lifestyle of the Americans. Ask a student moving abroad for higher studies or a family relocating for a better future, the story is the same – jugaad or frugal innovation is integral to Indian culture and somehow it continues to prosper, no matter wherever one goes around the globe!

Here are a few such instances wherein Indians use their mighty life hacks to save the day – almost every day!

The Indian culture in itself is a varied one. Here we have many religions which have their own traditions for different festivals and weddings too. 

To remind you all with the Indian wedding tradition, we believe in stealing the groom’s shoes and hiding them until he pays a lump sum amount to get them back. 

This might seem very normal to us, but might be as alien to the foreign countries as their rituals are for us.

Let’s acknowledge ourselves with a few of them.