Being an Indian is all about having obsessions. You can’t be an Indian if you don’t have a severe case of OCD for at least one thing in your life. Be it for clothes, food, money, people or for yourself!
Here is a list of the most cliched ones.
1. Seeing our children become Doctors or Engineers. ![](http://s1.scoopwhoop.com/indian obsessions1/obsession_1.gif)
2. We have an insatiable desire to please society in the name of “Log kya kahenge?” ![](http://s1.scoopwhoop.com/indian obsessions1/obsession_2.gif)
3. Being fair. And lovely. All the time. ![](http://s1.scoopwhoop.com/indian obsessions1/obsession_3.gif)
4. Having an accent or a killer bod. Or both. ![](http://s1.scoopwhoop.com/indian obsessions1/obsession_4.gif)
5. A ‘hawt’ girlfriend by your side. ![](http://s1.scoopwhoop.com/indian obsessions1/obsession_5.gif)
6. We’re crazy about labels and big brand names. Even if they spell “Alien Selly.” ![](http://s1.scoopwhoop.com/indian obsessions1/obsession_6.jpg)
7. Cricket. ![](http://s1.scoopwhoop.com/indian obsessions1/obsession 7.jpg)
8. Following fashion trends. Blindly. ![](http://s1.scoopwhoop.com/indian obsessions1/obsession 8.gif)
9. The big fat Indian wedding. No one does grand better than us. ![](http://s1.scoopwhoop.com/indian obsessions1/obsession9.gif)
10. Never-ending TV shows, no matter how stale the plot might get.
11. Selfies. To be honest, this one’s borrowed. But like chowmein became chomin, the selfie has now become accepted, loved and over-done. ![](http://s2.scoopwhoop.com/indianobsession2/obsession 12.gif)
12. An M.N.C tag on your I- Card, ration card and greeting card. Everything and everyone must work for some corporation. ![](http://s2.scoopwhoop.com/indianobsession2/obsession 13.gif)
13. The percentage we get in our board exams haunts us for the rest of our lives. ![](http://s2.scoopwhoop.com/indianobsession2/obs_14.gif)
14. Choosing science over humanities to maintain the family’s ‘standing’ among relatives. ![](http://s2.scoopwhoop.com/indianobsession2/obses_15.gif)
15. We’re obsessed with the stars and kundlis decide our marriages. ![](http://s2.scoopwhoop.com/indianobsession2/obsession 16.gif)
16. Oh. This one’s new. But it’s already becoming a really annoying trend. Tattoos. Tattoos everywhere. ![](http://s2.scoopwhoop.com/indianobsession2/obsess 17.gif)
17. DSLR owners who click random photos of insects and rocks & expect 15000 likes on each image. ![](http://s2.scoopwhoop.com/indianobsession2/obsess 18.jpg)
18. Free food, a.k.a, shaadi ka khaana. ![](http://s2.scoopwhoop.com/indianobsession2/obsess 19.gif)
19. Keeping an eye on everyone’s last seen on Whatsapp! ![](http://s2.scoopwhoop.com/indianobsession2/obsess 20.gif)
20. And of course! The eternal debate over virginity and pre-marital sex. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
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