Lac was known and being used in India during the Mahabharat times. The Kauravs had a Lac Palace made for the Pandavs to stay in during their Banbas period.They wanted to torch the palace while the Pandavs slept.Lac flows when heated and burns easily if naked flame is applied to it. Fore warned Pandavs had [...]
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Lac-Worth Its Weight In Gold
Posted in Accomodation, Around Jaipur, Blogroll, City Life, Comments, Details, GuestHouse, Hotels, Jaipur, Shopping, Travel, culture, india, rajasthan, rajasthani, tagged おみやげ, インド, ジャイプル, ジュエリー セット, チュラ, バングル, マニハロのラスタ, ラジャスタニ。, ラジャスタン, ラック, bangles, Chura, 飾り, 象眼細工のミラー作業, Gifts, india, inlaid mirror work, Jaipur, Jewellery sets, lac, maniharon ka rasta, ornaments, rajasthan, rajasthani on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bal Vipra Bankura Hanuman Ji Mandir,Baleta
Posted in Accomodation, Around Jaipur, Blogroll, City Life, Comments, Details, Fairs, GuestHouse, Hotels, Jaipur, Temples, Travel, culture, india, rajasthan, rajasthani, temple, tagged Alwar, Bal, Baleta, Child Image, Folk Lore, Hanuman, Hanuman ji, india, Jaipur, rajasthan, rajasthani, temple, Vipra on August 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On the banks of the pond of village Baleta on a sandy knoll,this ancient temple of Hanuman ji is situated.The idol is only about one and a half foot high.It depicts Hanuman ji in his child image in the guise of a brahmin.He is standing with folded hands.
According to folk lore this Temple of [...]
A Rajasthani Delicacy-Ker Sangri Pickle
Posted in Blogroll, Comments, Cusine, Details, GuestHouse, Hotels, Jaipur, Shopping, Travel, cookery, culture, food, india, rajasthan, rajasthani, tagged cookery, cooking, Cusine, Delicacy, india, Jaipur, Ker, Lasore, Ms.Vishnu Priya, Pickle, rajasthani, Recepie, sangari, Sangri on August 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In a guest post Ms.Vishnu Priya shares the recipe for preparing Ker Sangari Pickle.
Ker is a green berry like fruit of a thorny bush(capparis decidua) found in the arid parts of Rajastnan.It is very sour, and is commonly available during the months of April and May. In Jaipur you can buy fresh ker [...]
Master Masons Of Sikandra
Posted in Accomodation, Around Jaipur, Blogroll, City Life, Comments, Details, GuestHouse, Hotels, Jaipur, Sculpture, Shopping, Travel, culture, india, rajasthan, rajasthani, tagged Jaipur, rajasthan, india, Agra, dausa, Jaipur Agra Highway, Forts, Palaces, Sikandra, NH 11, National Highway eleven, Masons, Jalis, Sandstone, Colonial Buildings, metro, Maurer, muratore, murare, muler, sculpteur, Bildhauer, scultore, escultor, skulptor on July 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Jaipur-Agra Highway (NH.11) near sikandra on both sides of the high way(For approximately 6 kms)you will see an open air market -shops selling wares made out of sand stone.Their forefathers built rajasthan’s fort’s and palace’s and temples and the colonial buildings in New Delhi and else where.
Now a days they make Jali’s,pillars,idols [...]
It Is A Dog’s Holiday
Posted in Accomodation, Around Jaipur, Blogroll, Books, City Life, Comments, Details, Gardens, GuestHouse, Hotels, Jaipur, Photos, Travel, culture, india, pets, rajasthan, tagged animal mimado, animale favorito, cane, Cheap Rooms, chien, Dogs on a holiday, glet-khayele, guest houses, GuestHouse, Haustier, Hotel, Hund, hunt, india, Jaipur, perro, pets, rajasthan, vet on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In theses days of nuclear families and rushed life of metros and jobs which will take you any where in India you do not have the extended family to support each other in an emergency or when you want to go on holidays.So you have to take your pet with you [...]
A Rajasthani Curry Made With Aloe Vera
Posted in Accomodation, Blogroll, City Life, Cusine, Details, GuestHouse, Hotels, Jaipur, Marwari, cookery, food, india, rajasthan, rajasthani, tagged Aloe Vera, curry, Gawar Patha, india, indian, Jaipur, Ms.Vishnu Priya, Pix Tajendra Singh Rathore, rajasthan, rajasthani, recipie, reliance fresh store, vegetable recipes on May 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In a guest post Ms.Vishnu Priya,a house wife in Jaipur,shares the recipe for making a rajasthani curry using Aloe Vera ( Gawar Patha ) stems as found in rajasthan or the corner Reliance Fresh Store.
Ingredients
6 Nos. Aloe Vera (Gawar Patha) leaves
1 tea spoon Red Chilli Powder
1/2 tea spoon Turmeric [...]
CAMEL-THE SHIP OF DESERT
Posted in Accomodation, Around Jaipur, City Life, Cusine, Details, GuestHouse, Jaipur, camels, culture, food, rajasthan, rajasthani, tagged 1960, aphrodisiac, Bikaner, Bikaner Camel Corp, Bikaneri, breed camels, Camel breeding farm, camel regiment, camello, Camelus Bactrianus, Camelus Dormedarius, cammello, chameau, Cusine, gujarati, india, Jaipur, jaisalmeri, Kamel, keml, Laddakh, Maharaj Ganga Singh Ji, Maharaj Pabu ji of Kolu, National Research Centre On Camels, NRCC, Nubra Valley, rajasthan, RCDF, Ridmal Raika, Saras, Sri Lanka, therapeutic, URMUL Dairy of Bikaner, WW I, WW II on May 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
National Research Centre On Camels,Bikaner,is situtaed 8km from the city on an arid parcel of land over 2000 acres in size.This Camel breeding farm was established in 1960( though Man domesticated Camels about 3500 years ago).It provides 50% of the nations camels.Three breeds of Camels (one humped-Camelus Dormedarius) found here are jaisalmeri (known for speed),Bikaneri(known for load carrying capacity [...]
Abhaneri
Posted in Accomodation, Around Jaipur, Blogroll, City Life, Clubs, Comments, Details, GuestHouse, Hotels, Jaipur, Museums, Photos, Shopping, Travel, culture, food, india, rajasthani, tagged Abhaneri, Agra, aluda, Around Jaipur, bandikui, bhandarej, bichoon, chand baori, co-operative, dausa, harshat mata mandir, india, rajasthan, stepwell, temple, tourist dhani on February 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
6 Kms. from Bandikui railway station in Dausa District (62kms from Jaipur off Jaipur-Agra Highway) is Abhaneri-an ancient town best known nowadays for the 8th century stepwell and Harshat mata Temple.This ancient city is said to be the capital of Nikumbh Rajputs before they founded Alwar.Some 1000 years old this is one of the sites chosen for the rural [...]
Jaipur Life
Posted in Accomodation, Around Jaipur, Blogroll, Books, City Life, Clubs, Comments, Details, Fairs, Gardens, GuestHouse, Hotels, Jaipur, Museums, Shopping, Temples, Travel, camels, culture, india, poem, rajasthan, rajasthani, temple, tagged GuestHouse, india, Jaipur, Jaipur Poem, life, poem, rajasthan on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jaipur (IV)
Here in Jaipur the old and new worlds meet;
The forts,the temples,and the palaces
Look out on legislative offices
And schools and hospitals.This wide grave street
Worn by three centuries of slippered feet
And tripping pads of camels branches out
In roads that go impartially to meet
Old pleasure-gardens and new factories.
Here is a future growing from past beauty
Owning past inspiration-and [...]
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Jaipuri Razai-A Quilt Like None Other
Posted in Accomodation, Around Jaipur, Blogroll, City Life, Comments, Details, Hotels, Jaipur, Jaipuri, Travel, culture, india, tagged rajasthani, india, Jaipuri Quilts, Razais, cotton, जयपुर, भारत, Hand Block Prints on December 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are quilts and there are Jaipuri Razais.All sorts of quilts are made in Jaipur but the quilts which have earned the jaipuri razai sobriquet are around 700 to 800 gram in weight with outer covering made of very soft cotton cloth which is hand block printed in vegetable dyes in pastel colours and the [...]
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