Tour of Exotic India: The Golden Triangle

Exciting Jewish Heritage Tour of Exotic India: The Golden Triangle November 13 – 25, 2011 For someone from the West, India provides an authentic adventure: stimulating, absorbing, daunting, sometimes moving and shocking. Here is one of the world’s great dramas: an ancient, vast and crowded land committed to the most formidably challenging exercise in mass democracy. It is a spectacle in which hope, pride, paradox and uncertainty mingle and struggle. It is conducted on the whole, and to India’s credit, in the open.

The lasting memories of the land are hospitality, kindness, good humor and generosity. Here is a society of over a 1000 million people, growing by a million a month, divided and united by language, caste, religion and regional loyalties. It has often been described as a functioning anarchy, and it is in many ways an amiable one, of marvelous fluidity and tolerance.

Indeed, the true Indian motif is not the Taj Mahal, the elephant or the patient peasant behind the ox drawn plough. It is the crowd, the ocean of faces in the land of multitudes, endlessly stirring, pushing and moving. It is in this human circulation that one sees India’s color, variety, and busyness and senses its power, vitality, and grandeur.