Alan Ray : It's the world's largest Democracy. It's the world's second most populous country. A fascinating place were people bathe in the rivers...where beggars stand along streets choked with motor cars and cattle carts.
India is a land where some things haven't changed for a thousand years. It's also a land where Americans travel for scientifically miraculous medical procedures at world class hospitals, and pay a fraction of what they'd pay at home.
At San Diego's Mingei International Museum this summer, there's a remarkable exhibit: "India Adorned." It features every day objects of Indian life, and explores the tug of modern life on a culture that is thousands of years old.
The Mingei International Museum's new exhibit: "India Adorned" runs through April 19, 2009.
Guests
- Rochelle Kessler , curator of "India Adorned." She is an art historian with a specialty is India art and culture.
- Stephen Huyler , art historian, cultural anthropologist, photographer and author of "Daughters of India." He's spent the last 37 years travelling in India.
