Living a life of a vegan is sometimes tough, especially when you are in an alien country surrounded by meat chewing people who cannot relate to people like me. The vegans of more extreme variety do not even consider me as vegan, who do not use any animal based products like leather shoes, cow milk, honey etc.. :-). That's why the airlines (or whoever) coined the term "Indian Vegetarian" - which is close to lacto-vegetarianism in vegan terminology. Vegetarianism in India has no strict rules, but loosely based on the principles of compassion towards the animals - like milking a cow or buffalo after the calves have had enough, eating plant based food consisting mainly grains, pulses and vegetables.
Apart from other disadvantages like finding a vegetarian dining place while living or visiting another country there is this little known occupational hazard - participating in team lunches and undergoing the ordeal of eating Buddhist delight (uncooked vegetables in soy sauce and vinegar).
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