The Indian culture is a mosaic of cultures – a fusion of Thygaraja's Carnatic music with Amir Khusro's innovations in Hindustani Classical, a ballet of Dandiya sticks matching rhythms with a Bharatanatyam performance, a sensation felt in Mira's couplets in praise of Lord Krishna and Tagore's nationalist literature, an architectural celebration of the Taj Mahal and South Indian temples, a traveler's surprise when looking at the snow-peaked Himalayas and then the backwaters along Indian coasts.