at a Rajasthani cultural show in Udaipur (DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME)

this lady was AMAZING--about the age of my grandmother, and (in this photo) she is dancing on broken glass with 3 large jars on her head. but that was childs play -- she soon added 3 more jars, and danced on saws!!

Rajasthaning in the kitchen with tablas...and rats?

January 25th 2005
I arrived in Pushkar in an overnight bus from Udaipur yesterday morning, about an hour before sunrise. Other than the couple tea stalls offering me and my rickshaw driver some chai (and the stray cows and donkeys chewing on cardboard) it was a pretty ghost townish morning. I sat on the table-on-wheels variety of rickshaw and practically jolted from my half-wake half-asleep state when the megapho ... 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

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