India is the largest country in the Indian Subcontinent and shares borders with Pakistan to the west, China and Nepal to the north, Bhutan to the north-east, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Indonesia lie to the south-east in the Indian Ocean. It is the seventh largest country in the world by area and, with over a billion people, is second only to China in population. It's an extremely diverse country, with vast differences in geography, climate, culture, language and ethnicity across its expanse, and prides itself on being the largest democracy on Earth.

"If somebody asks me where the human mind has developed the most, I would surely point towards India" remarked Max Muller when once inquired as to which race he considered the most progressive of all. True! When the buds of civilization were still sprouting in so many contemporary countries, India was at its brim of cultural progress and promotion.

Travel India : A thousand images rise, sloeeyed women in brilliant sarees, swaying down village streets; computer whiz kids in a Bangalore street cafe; wildlife sanctuaries and national park of Uttaranchal; the luminous Taj Mahal, love poem in marble; a small man in a loincloth marching to independence. India is the stark mountains of Ladakh, she is the sand dunes of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, bustling Mumbai, verdant northeast forests where orchids grow wild, the breathtaking sunsets at land's end, Kanya ng atonement in the Ganges. Rich with history and glowing with the promise of tomorrow, India is, most of all, destinations to be savoured.