Passage to India (with help from Amazon)

“In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.”
― E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

I’m going to India with three friends in October. I’ve always wanted to visit but my husband had no desire to travel there and anyway my fear of flying would have prevented it. However we’ve booked a 15 night very organised trip centred around Delhi and to this end I’ve been buying kurtas and loose Indian trousers. I love the colours!