"India is an individual experience and a universal encounter. There are countless ways of seeing it, many approaches to it...For me, it is white lotus, sacred cow dung plastered on trees and mud houses, myriad of naked children with eyes like dates and dazzling smiles, and always the psychedelic colours of the bejeweled women decorating the landscape and walking with the grace of ionic columns, even with babies clipped to their wastes like clothespins; jasmine and marigolds woven in ebony hair, and the ever-present mongrel dogs which roam the vast sub-continent; near naked coastal fishermen as graceful as the Hindu gods in bronze, the hours of dusk and dawn silhouetting the Hindu gopuram and Mogul dome, the incessant odor of sandalwood...and always I shall remember the trees of India-the jacaranda in flame, the frangipani, the flowering mango."
-Rollof Beny
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