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1. Elephanta Caves, Mumbai
On the island of Elephanta, originally called Garapuri (city of temples), about 10 kilometers by boat from Mumbai, there is a temple carved into the rock, and carved on one of its walls, the triple face of Mahesamurti, one of the more beautiful and enigmatic representations of the Hindu god Siva.
Its three faces represent the Trimurti, the three forms adopted by Hinduism: creation, preservation, and destruction, three phases that continue uninterrupted in the universe, in a wonderful sculpture that gives off serenity and indifference.
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2. Taj Mahal, Agra
“Despite its severe, purely geometric ornaments, the Taj Mahal floats. The bottom of the door is like a wave. In the dome, the immense dome, there is something slightly excessive, something that everyone feels, something painful. Everywhere the same unreality. Because that white color is not real, it does not weigh, it is not solid. False in the sun, false in the moonlight, a kind of silverfish built by man, with a nervous tenderness, “wrote the French Henri Michaux.
It is very difficult to describe a building as beautiful as the Taj Mahal, Agra. Because when you finally stand in front of the white marble mausoleum that Emperor Shah Jahan built for his third and beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, you realize that everything you’ve seen, read, and heard about him falls short.
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3. Khajuraho Temple, Madhya Pradesh
All Hindu culture responds to a dialogue between being and emptiness, between asceticism and sensuality. And on the path that leads to moksha (liberation), both the practices of yoga and the erotic rites of tantra are valid, which finds one of its best expressions in the voluptuous erotic sculptures of the temples of Khajuraho, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, with its seductive apsaras (celestial nymphs in Hindu mythology) and their lovers’ partners in impossible positions.
Twenty temples are preserved, distributed in three groups, west, east, and south, on a surface of about six square kilometers. The ogival structures that crown the chapels represent Mount Kailasha, the cosmic mountain located at the center of the universe, the abode of the destroyer god Shiva and his wife, Parvati.
They were built between 950 and 1050, during the Rajput Chandela dynasty. A delicate sandstone Kama Sutra refers to the tantric rites of Hinduism, a “fossilized dance”, according to the Mexican writer Octavio Paz.
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4. Hawa Mahal
Summer rains have swept the dust off the dry plains of Thar in Rajasthan; after the monsoon, the nights are cool in northern India; It is time for fairs and festivals such as Diwali, the festival of lights, which fills the cities with candles and rangoli: geometric designs made with rice grains and colored pigments.
With autumn comes the best time to travel to Rajasthan, the kingdom of Rajput warriors where men wear fuchsia turbans and women go barefoot and have the appearance of princesses, like the ladies who enjoyed the breeze more than 200 years ago. in the Hawa Mahal, the Palace of the Winds of Jaipur, the pink city that was founded in 1727 by Sawai Jai Singh, the maharaja of Amber.
“I know you’ll be back to take me to the Palace of the Winds,” Kristin Scott Thomas tells Ralph Fiennes in an exciting scene from the movie The English Patient.
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5. Varanasi (Benares)
Mark Twain wrote that Benares was “older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and it seems twice as old as all of them together”.
Kashi, its classic name (it is also known as Varanasi and Anandvana, the forest of joy) means the city of light, magical light in the morning of the Ganges, happy in its twilights populated by kites, mysterious in the glow of the nocturnal pyres.
The light that Jean Renoir knew how to capture as a metaphor for life in the wonderful movie The River.
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6. Orchha
To enter Orchha, a “city of temples, shikhara dotted with guano, ruined palaces, Havelis (mansions) and sandstone cenotaphs almost hidden by brush, the abode of troops of dark-faced langurs, vultures and flocks of parakeets with green plumage bright, “which lies forgotten on the banks of the quiet river Betwa, a tributary of the Ganges, we must flank the heavy wooden door bristling with nails that protected it against the attack of the fighting elephants.
Located halfway along the route from Agra to the erotic temples of Khajuraho in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, the former capital of the Bundela warrior prince dynasty is now a small village where women tend to dry the saris in the terraces of the Betwa river.
7. Haridwar
In Haridwar, the “gate of the gods”, the Ganges leaves the buttresses of the Himalayas to begin its tranquil flow through the plains of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. There one breathes a spirituality very different from the exuberance of Benares.
Its temples, ashrams (retreat and meditation centers), and Dharamshala (religious hostels) serve as a claim for neo-hippies and yoga scholars (in nearby Rishikesh, the Beatles spent a season looking for themselves and, in passing, making it rich to the guru Maharishi).
As in Benares, in Haridwar every evening the Ganga Aarti is celebrated, the light offering to the river that here flows fast like a torrent.
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8. Allahabad
A magical place: 150 kilometers west of Benares, in Allahabad, there are the two great rivers of northern India, the Ganges, and the Yamuna, plus an imaginary one: the Sarasvati, the river of enlightenment that the holy the novel by Kipling Kim from India. This enclave gathers thousands of pilgrims who camp in their dunes to bathe in Sangam, the precise point where the three streams meet.
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9. Jim Corbett National Park
India has several reserves dedicated to Bengal tigers. One of the best known is the Jim Corbett National Park, in the State of Uttarakhand, under the foothills of the Himalayas, which is named after a famous hunter of male-eating felines, although it is easier to see them in the park of Bandhavgarh (Madhya Pradesh), which has the highest density of specimens in the country.
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10. Temples of Madurai
For those who have already visited North India, the region of Tamil Nadu, in the south of the country, is a good option. The route starts from Chennai (ancient Madras), the capital of the State, and continues through Kanchipuram, the city of a thousand temples; Mahabalipuram and its pagodas by the sea, and Sri Meenakshi, a fabulous complex of Hindu temples in the city of Madurai.
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