With one foot swathed in ancient traditions and the other striding into the entrepreneurial e-age, few countries on earth embrace diversity as passionately as India. With a population of one billion people and growing, India is as vast as it is crowded and as sublime as it is squalid. The plains are as flat and featureless as the Himalaya are towering and spectacular, the religious texts as per;lexing as their underlying message is simple, and the people as easy-going as they are tenacious. India, it is often said, is not a country but a continent. From north to south and east to west, the people are different, the languages are different, the customs are different,the country is different..