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DESTINATION INDIA!
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Little India
04-30-2003
"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man
or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits
on its rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked." -
Mark Twain
Well, Twain may have known otherwise, but growing up in India, to this
writer, like most Indian Americans, India was just India, home. There was
the big undiscovered world outside and then there was India - just Here,
home.
It was an electric fan whirring noisily overhead in the Delhi heat as one
did homework. It was the street food in ...
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