Flooded Pushkar

Pushkar Revisited: Paradise regained or a momentary reprieve?

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October 7th 2010
For those who follow this blog, you might remember a piece I did after visiting Pushkar in February 2010 entitled “Pushkar: Paradise Lost”. In that blog I talked about the sad state of affairs leading to the then empty Pushkar Lake. I was quite despondent about the future for Pushkar Lake and therefore Pushkar. I was again in Pushkar at the end of August - and arrived just after 3 days of v ... 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