Among world cultures, Indias is a rare one: it has not been afraid of idols and images, masculine and feminine; benevolent and fierce; natural, tribal, sophisticated commingling in a holistic, non-conflicting life-style, flowing like a river all over the vast land. To Europeans who were here three centuries ago, it was a wonder par excellence, because they were not accustomed to such playful phenomenon of great variety, and many studies in their spare time, and ...