Perhaps a slight power level, but in my younger years I spent time in various parts of India. The claim that Indian food in India is vastly different from the stuff in the West is total bullshit. In fact, I found it to be remarkably similar (I was actually expecting it to be more different, and was disappointed), only less hygienically prepared, naturally. Claims of there being a huge variety of dishes are also bullshit. The dishes all taste very similar/the same, because basically the base flavour is more or less the same combination of spices to which they then add a few different ingredients.