Sounds

The best was to describe India is not in her sights (which admittedly are aweing) nor in her smells (overpowering) but in her Sounds.  I have never in my 20 years been somewhere where there are so many sounds.  At any given time you have temple bells claniking in praise of any number of gods, you have muslim calls to prayer, you have the screams of street children playing in garbage, you have the cacophony of thousands and thousands of bells and horns.  While in America we use our horns to drawn attention to danger or to assert ourself occasioanlly, Indians use their horns at all times, for any reason, to let their prescene be known.  The only times sounds stop is around 3 in the morning.  It can be very draining (especially when you are sick and right outside your window at 11.00pm construction work begins) but it makes for a reall exciting place