| “This is indeed
India; the land of dreams and romance, of
fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendor
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 a thousand nations and a
hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two
million gods, cradle of the human race,
birthplace of human speech, mother of history,
grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of
tradition, whose yesterdays bear date with the
mouldering antiquities of the rest of the nations—the
one sole country under the sun that is endowed
with an imperishable interest for alien prince
and alien peasant, for lettered and ignorant,
wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the
one land that all men desire to see, and having
seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that
glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the
globe combined.”—Mark Twain, Following
the Equator, 1897 Please explore our
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