Update: God’s Country is Kerala.
I’ve been delinquent on writing about my Diwali-Kerala trip, but because my fellow fellows, Michael and Meera described the trip perfectly, I’ll just pass along their summaries:
http://yaudaipur.blogspot.com/2008/11/beef-beer-and-bananas-in-gods-own.html & http://meerasinha.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/kerala/
Kerala has moved past Cinqueterra and is now just behind Kenya for best places I’ve ever visited. See some of the pictures below; I’ve posted the rest to Picassa:
http://picasaweb.google.com/rick.desai/GodSCountry?authkey=aXtlhada-eI#
finding rickshaw. 