Wall at Poddar Haveli, Ramgarh

The outdoor art galleries of Shekhawati

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August 19th 2009
Our driver collected us for the drive to the towns of the Shekhawati region - an area of Rajasthan just opening up to tourism. It is an outdoor art gallery, full of havelli houses decorated with glorious paintings, inside and out. The area is semi arid and we passed many small settlements full of mud and straw houses. It was very hot! The Shekhawati region was once on the Silk Road and the painte ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more