India Is Big

India is big in population, area, variety.....
My first hours of my only visit to India were spent lost on streets on the outskirts of Bombay. In a matter of hours I escaped to Sri Lanka. I enjoyed Sri Lanka.

I'll need a lot of help to make a pleasant stay in India.

My ignorance of the country is my biggest problem. I have thought to start by trying to research some cities smaller than Cennai/Madras.

For luck I've selected seven more or less at random:
Thirovagoor, Madurai, Lucknoow, Thanjavur, Jamshedpur, Vijayangara, Chandigarth.
I'd like to find a comfortable city with great air quality.

Long Foreign Stays

I may be becoming a city person in my old age. For example In Uruguay I would certainly living in Montevideo

In Ecuador I think, that as much as I used to love the beach, like to live inland not much lower than Cueca. So I'd probably live in Quito or Cueca.

In Colombia I think that now I'd rather live in Bogota than in Medellin.

The variety of services in cities seems very attractive to this old man now.

The third country on my stay list, after Ecuador and Uruguay, is India. I am ignorant enough of India to have no idea of which city in which to stay. Probably not it the three or four largest.
I was so frightened of the crowds on my approach to one of those cities that on my first day there I escaped to Sri Lanka. Now even the size of the Quebec City of Canada frightened me away so it is now surprise that my first day lost on the streets of Bombay was a fright.

In India I may need to be carried around in a basket by a guide for the first couple of weeks.

No 'h'

There is no 'h' in the name of the country

Sri Lanka

Beautiful Magic Island

Golden home of high Buddhist Culture. Oh, Sri Laka. When once you quiet the Tamil will you quiet those monsters among you who kill animals in their homes? Where will it end?

I see red eyed monkey gods dancing in the fire. Who will quiet them?

World Trade Center

In pre-Islamic times, Nabataean merchants and seamen did business with Chinese merchants and seamen in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka was an important trading center for a thousand years. It was a trade that included Mediterranean civilizations (including Rome), Persia, Arabia, India, China, mainland and island South East Asia (including The Spice Islands).
Sri Lanka added gems, spice, religious philosophy, wisdom, and business know how to that trade.
In more recent years North African Arabs, Portuguese, and the Dutch followed the trade routes via Sri Lanka which had been pioneered by Nabataeans, Chinese, and, perhaps, certain Malay's.