In the quest to find the world’s greatest five-star hotel, India holds some very worthy candidates. India’s cities and regions all offer an enormously diverse selection of distractions, with ancient temples, beaches, amazing foods with fantastic variation from place to place, and night life. Our hotels also have great variations, in design, cuisine, and special features. However, there is a consistency in quality where you are assured a luxury stay in accommodations that meet the highest standards in the industry. There will always be a splendid blend of tradition and innovation, where the classical values of hospitality and graciousness will accompany all the latest in technologies and amenities. India is truly unique, and our hotels are a perfect place to begin your journey here.
One of the most exciting activities here, perhaps, is people watching. The cities are incredibly diverse, and it is possible to while away glorious afternoons observing the parades of humanity. In this activity, one might feel as though they are following in the footsteps of India’s great writers, finding inspiration in the cities and the people of this country. There are hundreds of great Indian writers living in the world today, in multiple languages, narrating the stories of the human race.
One of its great contemporary writers is Arundhati Roy whose novel The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in 1997. It was hugely successful, placing on all the bestseller lists, and making her reputation instantly. Since then, she has not written another novel, but instead has produced a sizable body of writing on politics and culture that is perhaps as exquisite and observant as her fiction.
Then there is Kiran Desai, whose novel, The Inheritance of Loss also won the Booker, in 2006. Coming from an extremely literary family (her mother is Anita Desai), she has been in the limelight for a good part of her life, and her extraordinarily compassionate vision of humanity is evidence throughout the body of her work. Both of these writers have a major prize and a country in common, and their work is extremely distinctive, offering only a taste of literary India.
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