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Visas 
Check with the Indian consolate in your home country to find out visa requirements to enter India.  All U.S. and Canadian residents are required to purchase a visa before entering India.  To apply for a visa, you must contact the closest embassy or visa processing center to the city that issued your passport.  U.S. residents on the west coast should contact the San Fransisco embassy.  Residents on the east coast can contact the India Visa Center in New York or Washington DC.  The India Visa Center also has offices in Chicago and Houston.

San Fransisco Embassy Website
India Visa Center Website
Visa HQ

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Recommended Reading
City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre  
Come Be My Light Mother Teresa
Indian Summer by Alex Von Tunzelmann
Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri