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India - 'a passage to India'
You could spend a lifetime travelling around the world’s seventh biggest country and it would still hold countless untold mysteries. Slicing a mighty wedge from the high passes of the Himalayas, India spreads southwards across plains that are scoured by mighty rivers, and then onward across deserts, jungles and dusty hills to the endless sweep of the southern plateau and the Western Ghats.
Wilderness and spectacular landscapes are everywhere but India is primarily startling for its swirling, vibrant humanity.

Hyderabad, Darjeeling, Jaisalmer, Trivandrum and old ‘Calcutta’. The world atlas offers more than a few names that still retain that irresistible scent of the mysterious ‘East.’ It is no coincidence that a great many of these names are to be found on the map of India.

Profile:
Area: 3,287,590 sq km
Population: 1,095 million
Population density: 333 people / sq km
Languages: English is widely spoken in most regions. Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people but there are an estimated 1,600 minor languages and dialects here!
Conversation stopper: Every year, the number of children born in India equals more than the entire population of Australia.
Articles:
Saving Mr. Stripes – plight of the Bengal tiger
Divine Horses of Rajasthan – touring India’s desert state on a Marwari

 

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