"India a colorful enigma that defines even the most artful attempts to sum it up" (Loveday 1).

India, just as China, is a developing country. India has a current population of 1.29 billion people. The currency used in India is the Indian Rupee, which is worth 66.61 Rupees per U.S. dollar. There also twenty-seven different banks that are established

The Holi celebration is most commonly celebrated by the Hindu faith and is unique to its kind. It was a little out of the norm form for me because this type of thing isn’t what I have experienced ever in my life. There was a variety of colors and music that was played throughout the experience. The Hindu people allowed guests to enter their temple, without shoes, and dance and worship along with them to their music.

Being a Hindu girl we have many festivals and celebrations throughout the years and I wholeheartedly celebrate each and every festival. Among all our festivities, Holi is my favorite festival. Holi is celebrated mainly in Nepal and India but it has spread to certain part of Asia. it is a festival of colors. People throw colors at each other, drink and party. It is celebrated as victory of good over evil. It is a day where family reunite, friends enjoy by painting everyone with Beautiful colors.

Diwali is undoubtedly the brightest and the biggest among the festivals of Hindu religion. The word Diwali means a row of light and is derived from the two words ‘deep’ which means light and ‘avali’ which means a row. The celebration lasts for four days and each of the days has different tradition but the night of main festival coincides with darkest new moon night of Hindu calendar. Generally this festival comes in the month of October or November. During the festival, the whole country gets illuminated with light and dazzles with joy. Each and every day of the festival of light and illumination is marked by different tradition by different communities. But the celebration, enjoyment and goodness of all communities remain true and same.

"Why can't we be friends now? It's what I want. It's what you want." But India answers: "No, not yet...No, not there" (p332). Forster's 1924 novel, A Passage to India, begins and ends with a simple but complex question - can the English and Indian races be friends and, at the end of the novel , the answer appears to be no, "No, not yet" (p332). Forster creates a world in which there are no connections, where Indians and Englishmen speak the same language but do not understand each other. Friendship between Englishmen and native Indians, in the setting of the novel, is not only frowned upon, but it is highly unlikely within the context of the British colonialism. The barriers which prevent people from connecting and forming relationships,

A Passage to India entails various social criticisms and political matters that are among the human race. The setting of the story takes place in India where the British have colonized the city of Chandrapore. The British had no respect for the native culture and race that inhabit this region even thought they were the original inhabitants.

Weddings are a huge celebration of many cultures around the world, but in India they take it to the next level. Hindu weddings not only last one day, but a whole week, they have many traditions and rituals they have to follow before the actual wedding day. It is not only a celebration of two individuals, but two families coming together. Hindu weddings are one of the most beautiful and extravagant compared to most cultures and even though India is very diverse where there are more than 1600 languages spoken, the Hindu wedding is very traditional and followed by most. ADD THESIS

India is one of the oldest civilizations in the world and dates back to 2500 BC. India is located in Southern Asia and has the second largest population in the world with over 1.2 billion inhabitants. India’s culture began flourishing during the Golden Age during the 4th century AD. Today India has a very vibrant and colorful culture that is easily recognized throughout the world.

India is a country of rich culture where people of more than one religious culture lives together.

Holi the festival of colors is enjoyed and celebrated throughout Indian and has even spread out to the far west. The lively exchange of Abeer, the bhang pellets dissolved in the lassi, the revelry in the air is what Holi means to every Indian. However, it is not just limited to colors. Here are some interesting facts about Holi.

India is very famous for its cultural diversity and incredible festivals and Mumbai being the financial capital there are people hailing from all states and there is an unbelievable mix of castes and cultures, people and their festivals. And therefore festivals are celebrated almost every month by different people with their cultural background. They are celebrated with huge solemnity and happiness. In order to celebrated the particular festival there should be the suitable environment and suitable setting. This helps to celebrate festival with lots of happiness and enjoyment. It also enables to have meaningful celebration which doubles the joy of celebrating.

Diwali or deepavali is a five day that festival that represents the start of the Hindu New Year. All the fireworks, the small clay lamps and candles that are lit during the celebration is one of the main reasons why it is called the “Festival of Lights”. This festival usually falls on the month of October or November . The lights are said to symbolize the victory of good over evil, and brightness over darkness. The Festival of Lights creates a warm atmosphere and it is celebrated with much joy and happiness.

People can agree that the colonization and the spread of the British Empire had the barest of good moments. And those good moments are overshadowed by the massive amounts of negativity that occurred in the wake of their rule. The way the nations were treated is obscured by the immense sense of pride that is displayed when thinking about a nation 's people and past. This also transcended into the way that America views and treats other nations that they are “allied with” or “has ties with”, but I digress. In the view of the overall topic of our class being the “refusal to inherit the modern novel”, I would like to point out the contradictions of character and the motifs being displayed are both important to this scene in the essence of the

Republic of India, a country located in the South Asia bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal (between Burma and Pakistan), is the second highest population country with 1,236, 344, 631 people (CIA, 2015a). India is the seventh largest country in the world and about size one third of the United States (Congress, 2004). India’s capital city is New Delhi which formally called National Capital of Territory of Delhi (CIA, 2015a). India has 6 major urban areas namely New Delhi with 24.953 million population, Mumbai with 20.741 million population, Kolkata 11.766 million population, Bangalore with 9.718 million, Chennai with 9.62 million population and Hyderabad with 8.67 million (CIA, 2015). India’s political view is democratic and stated that it has the highest number of democracy population in the world since 1990s as well as a multi-lingual federal state (BBC, 2015a). India has a rich diversify culture, according to Zimmermann (2015), ‘different regions have their own distinct cultures’. According to Gujarat High Court (2010), India has no national language, but majority of Indian has spoken Hindi and write in Devanagari script. The earliest history of India started with the Indus Valley Civilization about 3000 BC, one of the earliest known civilizations in the world. In the 19th century, India was colonized by the British Empire that influenced much of the western political and cultural views of Indian people (CIA, 2015a). In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi begins

The novel, A Passage to India, starts off by stating the environmental and basic background features India has to offer. Chandrapore, where the book takes place, is not the most alluring place to visit while in India. In essence, the whole city is just a forest with few houses. Aziz, who is the lead character in the novel, is a doctor who lives in the city and goes to patients’ homes to treat their illnesses, for that is what he has been doing for years. When Aziz hears about English entering India, he wants to befriend them and become acquaintances. A friend of his, Muhammad Ali disapproves of this idea and tells him it will never work out. Determined to prove him wrong, Aziz is soon encountered by Mrs.Moore, a woman from England who has come to India. The two of them get to know each other and he escorts her to the Chandrapore club, where Indians are not permitted. There she meets Adela Quested, who is to marry Ronny, her son. Adela wants to see the real India and