“…In India, one can walk straight into medieval or pre-historic times, because these periods are not just tucked away in museums, they are living, all around you.”
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Returning Home (Paris : Musée national d’art moderne, 1985)

"India was a post modern nation before it became a modern one."
McEvilley, Thomas, The Common Air: Contemporary Art in India, Artforum, Summer 1986

“In Delhi I knew I had found a theme for a book: a portrait of a city disjointed in time, a city whose different ages lay suspended side by side as in aspic, a city of djinns.”
William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: a Year in Delhi (Penguin Books, 1993), p. 9

"Far and wide his golden voice rang calling the faithful to prayer,
calling them to leave their beds and arise from sleep, in a rippling
voice full of the glory of a summer dawn."
Ahmed Ali, Twilight in Delhi, p13

“Diversity is the hallmark of India…from tropical rainforest to sandy deserts and eternal Himalayan snows…this rich repository of artistic traditions and natural materials has evolved a dynamic art and craft culture, which through its vibrancy, inventiveness, and often superlative workmanship, had for over a thousand years enthralled all who have encountered it.”
Ilay Cooper and John Gillow, photographs by Barry Dawson, Arts and Crafts of India (London: Thames & Hudson, 1996)

"This experience is such,
that it defies all description."
Raidas cited from Indian Religions by Peter Hees, p. 370