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SENSUOUS, SPIRITUAL INDIA STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN RIZZO
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WAGMAG.COM
JUNE 2018
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o understand India’s amazingly diverse and enchanting culture fully, you would normally need a great deal of time. However, with both Hindi and English widely spoken, the ability to get to know these people is quite easy. It is the only 5,000-year-old culture in the world that speaks English as a second language. Hospitality, respect for traditions that transcend generations and the ability to adapt to other cultures without sacrificing their own are qualities that make Indians unique worldwide. This country will warmly take you in, and then astonish you with a sensuousness and sensuality that seamlessly blend the sacred and the profane and manifests itself in all of the arts and religious practices. The River Ganga (Ganges) is considered sacred