There can be no better introduction to the magic of India, its splendour and diversity, than the words of India’s great poet Allama Iqbal - "The great civilizations of Greece, Rome and Egypt have vanished from this earth, but the unique identity of Indian civilization survives".

It is the land about which the great philosopher Rabindranath Tagore wrote:

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward…