Star Hotel Prithviraj Ajmer
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Holy Pushkar
Based on a recommendation by a travel agent in Kolkata I decided to visit this small dusty town with its holy lake surrounded by 52 bathing ghats where Hindu pilgrims bathe in the sacred waters. 400 milky-blue temple, including some of particular importance like the only Brahma temple in India makes this place a muddle of religious and tourist scenes.
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The Contradictions of Pushkar
... I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of “arranged marriages.” The ritual has been part of the Indian culture since the fourth century and continues to be the norm. As one friend explained it, “marriage is treated as an alliance between two families rather than a union between two individuals.” Although with modernization I have been pleasantly surprised to meet several couples who are products ...
Holy Moly!
... Thali and Breads beautiful mushroom , spinach , potato with cumin, black dahl , panneer and chapatis with rice and mooli paratha. followed by sweet pancakes with honey - pancakes are eggless in this lovely town. NO MEAT NO EGGS NO ALCOHOL AND DRUGS - well except marijuana and bhang for the sadhus that is! We are loving the vegetarian food here and the lack of alcohol strangely is not as yet worrying me , although Arvin funnily enough is desperate for a beer or G ...
We LOVE the Pushkar Camel Fair
... less this year because the late monsoon has meant people were still harvesting the crops, so couldn’t come.
Back at the Mela, there are milking cows being judged in the arena. Some of these, in colour and build, look like European milch cows. In the VIP section, the moustache competition is being judged. It is very difficult to get a good photo or even a look due to the infestation of camera buffs with their big lenses right in the face of the ...
The Reversed Acropolis
... in on the photos and describe the kind of activities people are carrying out in the two instances, we might actually come up with a similar list for both. In both pictures people are talking, in both we can find someone sitting or walking. It is the stage set that has changed and with it a whole set of assumptions. It seems plausible that the two chatting in front of the banana vendor are talking about how to go about their day's business ...
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