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Fair and Festivals in India ?

May 28th, 2008 02:18
John Martin, http://www.spaindiaholidays.com/

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India is a land of great diversity. It covers a land mass roughly the
size of Europe and is home to one fifth of humanity. It's domain extends
3,300 km from the northern snow capped Himalayas to the steamy palm
dotted south.

Its' people speak a total of 1,652 dialects and has 15 officially
recognized languages with a cuisine that undergoes changes every 200 km.
Lifestyles and customs vary every few hundred kms. Each state promotes
it's tourist wonders.

It has a myriad festivals, in rhythm with the cycle of the seasons, with
sowings and harvesting. As elsewhere, around them have grown legends,
most depicting the victory of good over evil. Before Independence, many
persons counted his age or an important event in his life by connecting
them with particular festivals during h/her birth year!. These were the
punctuation marks in the story of his life.