“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 pestilence, 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, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human  speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of  tradition”- Mark Twain