India is the land of extremes. You can ascend to the altitudes of the Himalayan mountains and then descend to the dry, scorching deserts. There is drought and monsoon, severe poverty and unimaginable opulence, breath-taking beauty and heart-breaking pollution, chaos and serenity, courtesy and rudeness. It all exists side-by-side, alternating with the blink of an eye. The most mystical extreme is that India spans material to spiritual - geographically situated in the physical dimension, yet dotted with innumerable