November occupies a unique sweet spot on the Indian travel calendar. The heavy post-monsoon humidity has fully vanished from the plains, the scorching summer heat of central and western India is a distant memory, and the harsh deep-winter freezes of the high Himalayas have not yet locked down every valley. It is the month when Rajasthan enters its royal prime, the legendary crystal-clear glass waters of Meghalaya's Umngot River return to peak visibility, and spiritual capital