Do not try to see everything in India and indeed, as a
tourist, don’t try to understand India. It will take two lifetimes to do that.
Just let India flow over you.
In India everything is a contradiction: confusion on the
surface, noise and secretiveness, mixed with an almost total lack of privacy.
How can you be private with all those teeming millions around you? India is
often exasperating and always absolutely fascinating.
All this, plus an all pervasive spirituality which is not necessarily religious but simply the product of a detachment which is uniquely and typically Indian. As a tourist you live, inevitably, in a cocoon and dangers to your health and well being are minimal provided you follow elementary rules. As for what appears to us to be abject poverty, the very fact that you are there and spending money, helps India.
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