Pot maker

In the shadow of Bundi palace

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February 24th 2016
Last night, as we sat struggling to post the last two blogs in the face of very intermittent broadband, we fell into conversation with a teacher from Delhi who was helping the Maharajah improve the quality of education in the private schools the Maharajah runs in Karauli. He told us the real (as opposed to the published government figure) literacy rate in Rajasthan is probably only about 30% and ... 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