The Meat Issue

An enormous amount of Indians is vegetarian. To this extent that the "non-veg" food on the menu is usually outnumbered two to one by the "veg" food.
Almost everything nourishing you buy in a shop has either a green dot or a red dot on it.
Green for Veg, Red for Non-Veg.

Non-Veg, however, has a slightly different interpretation than in Europe.

a) it's defined by the "not being vegetarian"; basically making it the exception, not the rule.
b) Despite what you might believe, non-veg does not include all meat. It only includes chicken and mutton. Cows are holy and Pigs dirty.
c) Despite what you might believe, non-veg often includes "eggs" as well. Even though I haven't met a single vegan yet; most of the vegetarians seem to think it normal that eggs are part of the "meat" group. I had a vegetarian omelet the other day. it did not contain eggs.
d) Most of them, however, are what is called "eggatarians" here. As in, they are willing to make an exception for most meals which have eggs in them. For example muffins.

In Europe, we generally pride ourselves in removing all the bones, sinnews and what not from the meat before plunging it into some stew. Sure, we like some bone on our T-Bone Steak, or on our Kotelet or Chicken Leg. But in a Stew, we prefer our meat chew-ready. Also, preferably, we prefer our meat to not resemble the animal it came from. No spines or cute little ribs for us, if we can help it.

Not so in India.
This is probably partially explained by the fact that the use of forks and knives (which aren't really known for cooperating well with bones and such) is quite limited here. People usually eat with their hands and, perhaps, a spoon.
It's probably also explained by the fact that, unlike us "fancy Europeans", people here actually realize where meat comes from. They know it doesn't grow on trees or straight in the supermarket. It comes from slaughtered animals.

You haven't eaten chicken until you've ripped a spine apart in search of more flesh.
(after that, you probably won't have eaten chicken either, seeing that there is precious little meat to be found between two spinal bones...)