India is like a book, full of strange and wonderful stories. You may not believe what you read, you may not agree with what's written, but one thing is for certain, you just can't stop wanting to discover more; and the more you read, the more fascinating it gets.

India is throbbing with diversity, there are so many traditions and rituals which are unique to it and it is a country of festivals, ancient as well as the new modern ones which are infiltrating the scene. It won’t be possible to cover all of them but we will try and summarize some of the most interesting (and baffling!) ones in this session.