Indica

India…

A land, a culture, a people, a misnomer. What we call India is more of an idea than a real entity. It has always existed for the world as an exotic land. A land which was less understood and remained for long a fairy land.

Its people, how can one describe them! Though of recent, described as snake charmers and elephant riders, they have had a unique role in shaping the world as we know it today…

The number of languages, cuisines, dressings, customs and even blood we people have is unmatched anywhere else! Get people from the four corners of this country to stand beside each other and you may think that they are from four corners of this world! But still such scenes occur very often here.

It has been the melting pot for ideas and people for a very long time. You can sit beside a road and quietly observe the people passing by. It will amaze you how varied the people can be (and I bet there will be a lot of them too). This world of magic has shrunk and expanded. At its zenith influencing more than half the world’s population and its nadir, its very existence was at stake. However today, again it is thriving.

Today its people are awakening again.

The people who till now were varied in color, customs and religions, today vary in nationality too. A new culture has arisen with this variety. The curry as a new spice added to it!

This blog is a tribute to this sense of Indianness, rather “bharatiyapan”, of being the people… Indica.