Abstract:

Dr. Huston Smith, author of The Religions of Man, joins acclaimed filmmaker Elda Hartley in this award-winning voyage through India's haunting spiritual landscape. Hartley's magnificent images, gathered from Kashmir to Benares, Bombay to Bangalore, combine with Smith's poetic narration in this visual essay of lingering beauty. This film creates a picture of an India of Paradoxes and extremes...her many religions -- images gathered from Kashmir to Benares, from Bombay to Bangalore, combine with the poetry of Dr. Smith's words to produce a visual essay of lingering beauty.