India: Delhi & Agra/Rajasthan
Two shows featuring the urban and rural culture of India. Delhi & Agra, India: India is the world’s “it” country. Tumultuous, colorful, and fragrant, northern India is a mosaic of urban and rural life. “You can put a camera down almost anywhere in India and let it run for two hours,” Rudy Maxa says, “and when you return, you’ll have a film to rival an ‘Indiana Jones’ movie.” From the serene beauty of one man’s love poem to a woman, the Taj Mahal, to the crowded alleys of downtown New Delhi, India is a feast for the senses. Maxa discovers temples straight out of Disneyland and consults a street astrologer who tells him he will live a long life but his hotel room number is not an auspicious one. Rajasthan, India: Jaipur, the “Pink City,” provided the Mughal Empire with its generals even as its civilians were building some of the world’s great temples and palaces. Here travelers find the Hawa Mahal, the Hall of Winds, built with red and pink sandstone. One of Rajasthan’s other gre