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Pushkar Lake as a lake!  
   

Pushkar Lake as a lake!

This is the half of Pushkar Lake still intact in early 2009 - the other half had been drained for dredging. Taken from Chundra Ghat at sunset
Pushkar - Paradise Lost?

February 26th 2010
What does one say walking into beloved Pushkar to find the lake all but dry? I first came to Pushkar in 1983. At that time the lake was full and clean with hundreds (if not thousands) of large carp-like fish (between half and one metre in length). I used to swim daily in this lake - much to the interest and amusement of the Hindu pilgrims who came in droves to do their puja at the lakes edge (a ... read more
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