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Alfred North Whitehead believed "One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering". The human beings being the most developed of the living beings do it with pleasure. The adventure to visit places, the charm to be treated with pleasant surprises and the stimulating experience for souls bring thousands of people to India every year. The memories of travel in India are so unforgettable and so much worth another visit.
India has it all, it is the land of beauty and diversity. It has the warm, dry and dusty desert, the cold snow capped Himalayas, the sunny beaches and the green palms.
A visit to India has a unique flavor of variance unparalleled in the world. India is like a colorful patchwork quilt, beautifully harmonized to form a composite whole with a whopping population. Nevertheless, each Indian seems to believes in the Sanskrit dictum
"Atithi Devo Bhava" which means, "Treat a guest as if he were God himself"
Travel to India and understand why the country has survived th e onslaught of warring cultures for over thousands of years. Travel to India to understand its culture and people. Travel to India to know why India is so puzzling and startling for the people who experience the country for the first time. Travel India to know why India is so spiritually blessed. Travel to India to know them all and more�
What is India?
India is the name given to the vast peninsula which the continent of Asia throws out to the south of the magnificent mountain ranges that stretch in a sword-like curve across the southern border of Tibet. Shaped like an irregular quadrilateral,this large expanse of territory we call India deserves the name of a subcontinent. Ancient geographers referred India as being constituted with a four-fold conformation (chatuh samasthana samsthitam), on whose south, west and east is the Great Ocean while the Himavat range stretches along its north like the string of a bow. The name Himavat refers not only to the snow-capped ranges of the Himalayas but also to their less-elevated offshoots-the Patkai, Lushai and Chittagong Hills in the east and the Sulaiman and Kirthar ranges in the west. These go down to the sea and separate India from the wooded valley of Irrawady on the one hand and the hilly tableland of Iran on the other. The Himalayas standing tall in breathtaking splendor are radiant in myth and mystery. These, the youngest and tallest mountain ranges, feed the Ganga with never-ending streams of snow. The Himalayas are home to the people of Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
Indians love these snow-capped peaks because they are a part of every Indian's life. They revere the mountains as they would the father. Even today, when urban India is racing against time, in the caves of the snow-clad peaks live hermits seeking the divine. Not a surprise when you consider that even the last and current centuries have seen some great philosophers like Ramana Maharishi, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramhansa and J. Krishnamurti.  |
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