Royal Rajasthan in Images

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The one thing true about Rajasthan is that in this land there is never a dull moment. The cities are not just coloured by nostalgia but they are literally coloured. Thus how can you escape the colours of the artisans of this very talented bunch of people.  Here they come alive, speak to you and welcome you.

The fort on the backdrop of a blue city with a sea of houses. A surprisingly breathtaking  view for a foreigner but a very mundane one for a local person. All the cities are uniquely coloured and all of them sport some very famous forts which somewhere make you feel like a petty invader!

A very common occurrence, the dearth of a cannon rather than its presence is shocking. A tribe brought up with echoes of war and warring factions in every direction, a cannon can very well be the mascot of this place. Walking through Rajasthan is similar to turning the pages of your history book and belonging to the ravages of many a war.

However much you may try, you cannot escape the sense of royalty that is ingrained in the very soil of Rajasthan. Maybe the grand palaces and the ornate buildings heighten this sense, yet without them it would be the same. 

 

The land of Raja, Maharajas, the grandeur is Rajasthan is more than seen or felt. It is imbibed.

Rajasthan belongs to its people. Tough people of the hardened desert, artistic people of the bygone era, the people who were born warriors and the people who embraced a land which tests them to the highest level. 

Yet they strive, survive, live and enrich this land with their unrelenting personalities. They make every bit of it beautiful.

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Mumbai: I love and miss you!

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Mumbai is vast. When you think of the city you cannot narrow it down to one specific feeling. It is a gamut of them catching you by your throat. But one thing I can guarantee you is that you will fall in love with it. There have been generations trying to define love with myriad expressions, yet they keep changing. It’s anger, hate, adoration, adulation, overwhelming, unfathomable and yes vast. Just like Mumbai.

When you land here you find a purpose. You want to be better: maybe richer or faster or kinder or greater. But you always strive to be better. The city tests your mettle but at the end of the gruel you feel nothing but proud. Maybe the whole sentiment is Romantic in a vicious way but you will end up admitting even that bit of Romanticism gives your life a purpose of its own.

Visit Mumbai during the pleasant months of Kalaghoda festival and soak in the art, culture, tradition and well-dressed ‘Sobo’ people.  Visit it during the tumultuous monsoons, wade through the murky water, catch a local train, reach Worli sea face and get splashed. Visit it during the Ganpati season and go for ‘Visarjan’ on the 3^rd, 5^th, 7^th and 10^th day. Visit it during the summers, choose a café in bandra and sit sipping the coolest drink possible wearing shorts and let the world pass you by.

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The city makes you do everything. It makes you climb a skyscraper and lets you scrounge for the best leather boots in Dharabi. Lets you sashay through the high end retail brands in a luxury mall and makes you sweat it out for lovely floral motifs on linking road. Even though the contrast, neither the high nor the low ever rejects you. Eat panipuri from the local shop on a Saturday night while waiting in queue for entry into the recently opened gourmet restaurant. It is but natural.

Even though the brooding heat will make you swoon, you cannot resist falling in love with this enormous, difficult city. But hey doesn’t everyone love a bad boy?  And like true love, you cannot let it go. It sings in your blood and every time you close your eyes, just like that, you are back in your favourite ‘tapri’, holding a broken umbrella, waiting out a sudden September rain with your friend, sipping cutting chai and breathing into your soul Mumbai.




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