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Swathed in color, women join a Hindu wedding procession in Rajasthan state.
Photograph by Antonino Puppi, My Shot
The stores of exoticism in this endlessly absorbing land extend from the Himalaya in the north to the Indian Ocean in the south. • India, Mark Twain once said, is "the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the world combined." • The result of the 1947 British partition of the subcontinent, India is today the world's largest democracy and has more millionaires than the United States. • Bollywood, Slumdog Millionaire, the Bangalore call centers—all obscure the "real" India, with its unique wildlife, culture, crafts, and skills.
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