The "feeling" called India

What is India? The physical India--the longitude and latitude cannot describe India.The political country with cultural division of states would not describe India; any one can move to any state and adopt the local language and the Indian people cannot be divided into states.Nationalism is a felt by all, culture is the same all over India; the nation can be called cultural  India.We can only visualize India as a cultural union.

There are three Indias-- the urban India, the rural India and the tribal India. City life in urban India would be same as it would be anywhere else-Internet, good schools, health care, good water facilities, all consumer items available etc The rural India is trying to catch up, agriculture is being modernized but the inherent uncertainties make every day life very very difficult. The tribal people living in the forests of India very much want to be part of the civilization, but they  lack schools, lack electricity,lack drinking water,lack  homes;they do not know how to become part of larger India. All three Indias are sharing one culture--Hinduism--reverence for the holy river Ganges, the Hindu pantheon of gods, the holy epics of Mahabharata, Ramayana. Their devotion to their work and belief in the Gita is universal. The essence of India can be felt in the values which Indian people hold as sacred.Everywhere you go,in India, the people's feelings are the same; the ingredient called 'Indian culture" is same in all the kinds of foods and tastes we find in India. Various kinds of people here are trying to find their own identity in this vast nation that is India.