It was the best of times... It's no secret that India is a land of contrasts. Be it from accounts on these pages, or other, more reputable sources, evident it is that North is starkly different than South, East markedly changed from West. Language, food, culture, history, religion, geography all vary considerably as one shifts in and out of different states and cities- in a land of 1.15 billion people- a sixth of the world population- no less than seventeen official languages are spoken, and no less than 600 dialects. And you'd be hard pressed to find two places as different from each other as Mumbai and Diu, my latest two stops on the subcontinent. Mumbai, dubbed the Maximum City, lives up to its nickname. I arrived only a few weeks before the monsoon, and the
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