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INDIA: A LAND OF DIVINITY

We were stranded in India during nationwide lockdown but it gave us an
opportunity to look into the diverse culture and divinity of India and the Indians,
lovely experiences of Pallares family about India during a yearlong stay.

Where modernity and spirituality meets, where cultural values are

ingrained in each and every person, is the land of gods called India “

– PALLARES FAMILY
A LAND DIVIDED BY DIVERSITY OR LOLA PALLARES, AND HIS SON TOM
RELIGION BUT UNITED by it, is evidenced in PALLARES travelled Turkey, Iran, and
the values and ancient culture, in the Pakistan in their SUV and were on their way
diversity of ethos and language, in the lush to Nepal through India. But as they were
valleys and majestic mountains in the north about the cross into Nepal, lockdown was
to mesmerizing beaches in the south, from declared due to the pandemic. Little did the
the exotic vegetation of the fertile land in the family know that instead of being trapped,
east to the panoramic deserts in the west. they were going to understand the wonders
India is the land which offers the most of India first-hand.
beatific and diverse experience
To know them and their experiences
Numerous International tourists have better, Adv. Nalini Mishra met the Pallares
had the privilege of experiencing this land of Family and had a brief chat with the mother-
gods. One such group of tourists is the daughter duo of Virginie and Ophelie
Pallares family, who, in 2020, decided to Pallares, at Radisson Blu, Gorakhpur. The
travel across the globe and set off from their following article tells the wonderful story of
original home in Toulouse, France. their offbeat but extraordinary experience in
India.
A family of five members, PATRICE
PALLARES, ALONGWITH HIS WIFE VIRGINIE “Which was your favourite Indian place and
PALLARES, HIS DAUGHTERS OPHELIE AND State you visited” Adv. Nalini asked “And did
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