A British travel vlogger’s experience in Old Delhi has gone viral after she shared an emotional account of feeling overwhelmed by the city’s street chaos — igniting a wider debate on culture shock, privilege, and the realities of travel in developing nations.

Emma, who goes by @discoverwithemma_ on Instagram, posted a video showing her and her partner riding in an autorickshaw through the bustling streets of Old Delhi. As they waited at a traffic signal, several beggars and transgender individuals approached them, asking for money. Some reached out to touch them — a moment that Emma later described as deeply uncomfortable. Advertisement

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“I can’t stand strangers touching me. Getting hounded in a rickshaw in Delhi was honestly overwhelming,” she wrote in her

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