As Aarti entered her teenage years, she began to explore the world beyond her village. She traveled to the bustling streets of Mumbai, where the skyscrapers seemed to touch the sky and the street food was a culinary explosion of flavors. She visited the magnificent Taj Mahal, in Agra, where the marble surfaces shimmered like diamonds in the sunlight. And she experienced the pulsating energy of the Navratri festival, in Ahmedabad, where the rhythmic beats of the garba music made her feet move to the rhythm.