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India is invincibly rich in art and culture.
In fact the theme of Indianness is
its unique heritage of art and culture that
is peerless. The numerous customs and
the traditions pertaining to those customs
and its branches have formed a diversified
but identical forms of heritage in India.
This very fact has prompted Mark Twain
to describe this country as 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 hundred
nations and hundred tongues, of a thousand
religions and two million Gods.
The
complexity and variety is the hallmark of
India, which attracts many visitors. This
country is replete with traditional art;
from calligraphic signs to mural paintings
and pillar structures, architecture;
from vignette stones to monuments, languages;
from Malayalam to Kashmiri, literature;
from Geetanjali of Rabindranath Tagore to
Vedic epics, music and dance; from
folk to classical, philosophy; from
rational to spiritual, science; from
abstract to the most technical, medicine;
Ayurveda, Siddha to music therapy, magic,
illusion and such sundry elements of
art and culture.
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