{"text":"As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all - the colours, the moods, the scents, the subtle, mysterious light, the poetry, the heightened expectations, the kind of beauty that made your heart miss a beat - well, that remained the monsoon.","author":"Alexander Frater","tags":["india","monsoon","travel"],"id":283470,"author_id":"Alexander+Frater"}