ABSTRACT
Think of a man coming to Europe for the first time in author's life; author spends some six to seven weeks travelling from Lisbon to Moscow and from Norway to Sicily, author does not understand a single European language except English and he has a most superficial knowledge of the people, their history, and their actual life. The Anglo-Indian style of architecture of the past fifty years is not interesting, but it gives a peculiar character to Bombay, as if one had already seen it somewhere else. It has more to do with the 'English character' than with India. The author makes an exception of the 'Gateway of India' that huge portal at the head of the royal road to Delhi. India's greatest individual, the unique Gautama Buddha, was preceded by more than a score of other Buddha's and is still not the last. Northern India is characterized by the fact that it is part of the immense Asiatic continent.
