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Welcome to India
A visit to India is an extraordinary experience, a voyage that provokes the mind
and enchants the senses. To quote Mark Twain "This is indeed India!The land of
dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty,of splendour and rags,
of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilenc, of genii and giants and Aladdin
lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of hundred
nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods,
cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history,
grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of traditions, whose yesterday's bear
date with the modering antiquities fo the rest of nations-the one sole country
under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable interest for alien prince and
alien peasant, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor,
bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen
once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of
all the rest of the world combined"
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