Why you should take a trip to India in 2015?

India's culture is a unique kaleidoscope - as baffling, to many, as it is fascinating. Everywhere amid this kaleidoscopic setting, there are curves and circles, inviting and including, alluring and enclosing. Indian art features spirals and curvaceous lines - vines and tendrils, the globe of the sun, benevolent serpents. Round-figured goddesses, circular armlets, oval gemstones, arches and domes, circles of dancers, round-haloed deities, curling elephant trunks, crescent moons, and spiraling conch shells. These textile tours in India reflect the all encompassing nature of Indian culture, which has integrated into its own panoply of customs, philosophies, and materials influences from every corner of the earth to form a uniquely rich and splendid civilization.

It is India's enigmatic "otherness" that so fascinates the first-time visitor, for perhaps no other country in the world can offer so much contrast - traveling within the subcontinent feels at times like traveling through time. From the snowy peaks of the Himalayas, where prayer flags flutter against an impossible blue sky, to the golden deserts of Rajasthan and Gujarat, where women wear saris saturated in fuchsias and saffron; from the vast plains of Madhya Pradesh, dotted with ruins and deep jungle, where the tiger roams and the rhino runs wild. Sylvan beaches, among the longest in the world to the lush tropical mountains off the Malabar Coast, the spectrum of community interactions in India and experiences is breathtaking.

"In religion, all other nations are paupers. India is the only millionaire." So wrote Sir Mark Twain on his visit to this nation. Everywhere, at all times, people in India are engaged in interaction with the divine, seeking to make things better in this life - or in the next. The people of India speak one or more of fifteen languages and over 200 dialects; they may be Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Zoroastrians or Jews. For there is not just one India but many, that coexist and overlap and merge into one another in a magical montage and you can witness that through culinary tourism in India.

With its wealth of religions, gods, goddesses, saints, heroes and saviors, India celebrates almost every day of the year and that's what makes it such a colorful destination. Some festivals are observed throughout the subcontinent, but most celebrate local deities and cults and mark the occasion of a god's incarnation, victory over a demon or marriage to a deity. Others follow the changing seasons and mark pastoral occasions. Hindu festivals usually follow the lunar calendar and both the full moon and the new moon, where ritual fasting and feasting go hand in hand.