India

India saturates your senses – sight, smell, sound, taste and touch. It’s loud, dirty smelly and chaotic, but it’s also beautiful, friendly, moving and open. You’re overloaded with information every waking moment. There are cows standing in the middle of highways, monkeys swinging from the electrical lines, makeshift barber shops on the side of the road, chai wallas yelling when a new batch of chai is ready, and the constant, constant sound of horns honking. I’ve never felt more alive, forced to be present in every single moment. India will engulf you and completely overwhelm you, but it will leave you feeling whole again. 

You’ve never seen life like this before; INDIA. 

“That’s how we keep this crazy place together – with the heart. Two hundred languages, and a billion people. India is the heart. It’s the heart that keeps us together. There’s no place with people like my people. There’s no heart like the Indian heart.”

Shantaram