My recent trip to India was an energising experience. The key word was serenity. We stayed out in the thar desert, watched the human-powered laundry system at the yamuna river, saw some symmetry obsessed mughal architecture, messed around in rundown astronomical parks and even some state-of-the-art internet cafes, spotted a forest in a palace on a lake (wow cubed), entire cities painted in one colour (municipal css), swastik servilletes and the insane daily pulse of an emergent economy like a constant thump to the head. Just wow, wow and more wow round every corner.