India is a photograph in a raw format

A RAW photographic image is a format that leaves all the pixels of an image available for manipulation and interpretation, without any compressing of the image, as in a JPEG format.
A RAW image is just that, raw and unadulterated.
Everything is there; nothing is left out.
RAW files are huge.
They are nearly impossible to transmit, especially from hand-held devices, today's instruments of choice for communication.
Without some degree of compression, as in JPEG, a RAW image is almost not communicable and, therefore, not capable of being comprehended.
JPEG, by compressing the gigantic amount of data into a workable quantity, allows the data (ideas) to be transmitted and received, and, therefore, to be viewed (assimilated) and comprehended.
RAW data is like the blinding light of cosmic revelation; and JPEG is like a religion, a format that tames and interprets the insight, before which we must otherwise remain mute.
For me, India represents, at this point, TMI, too much information.
Difficult to talk about without some serious personal debriefing (compression of data).


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