
English is spoken by almost all government officials present at Indian airports. The majority of tourists traveling to India land in New Delhi. The majority of foreign tourists arrive in India by air. Modern day India represents the largest democracy in the world with a seamless picture of unity in diversity unparalleled." There are perhaps very few nations in the world with the enormous variety that India has to offer. Perhaps the only thing more difficult than to be indifferent to India would be to describe or understand India completely. It is this variety which provides a breathtaking ensemble for experiences that is uniquely Indian. Every aspect of the country presents itself on a massive, exaggerated scale, worthy in comparison only to the superlative mountains that overshadow it. Enriched by successive waves of migration and marauders from distant lands, every one of them left an indelible imprint which was absorbed into the Indian way of life. Nowhere on Earth does humanity present itself in such a dizzying, creative burst of cultures and religions, races and tongues. "It is impossible not to be astonished by India. "If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India."

"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India". Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only." "India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition.
