I was seven when we moved to the north. In those days an exhausting and nearly unending journey, for us South Indians a journey into a foreign world. Between the subtropical jungles of Kerala and the snow capped mountains of the Himalayas lie 3'214 kilometres. This is where Alexander the Great came in 326 BC and innumerable others in the centuries that followed. The Muslim conquerors called it Hindustan – the land of the Hindus. A land of legends. The Indo-Gangetic Plain - a melting pot of peoples, cultures and religions. Through the years I have come to discover a world of never ending fascination.