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THAR
DESERT WESTERN INDIA- Rajasthan
Rajasthan
represents the ultimate confluence of history, chivalry, romance,
rugged natural beauty and colour. As Col. James Todd, the celebrated
writer once wrote:
"Rajasthan
exhibits the sole example in the history of mankind of a people
withstanding every outrage barbarity can inflict or human nature
sustain, and bent to the earth, yet rising buoyant from the pressure
and making calamity a whetstone to courage"
Today,
long years after the last bugle was sounded, and after the warring
kingdoms of erstwhile Rajputana, sheathed their swords, the desert
appears romantic, its arts, the expression of a brave yet sensitive
race, its architecture the embodiment of strength and grace. It is
as if, in celebration of life itself.
While
an age has come to pass, cities flourish and contemporary Rajasthan
is an explosion of colour and paegentry. It is the ultimate
destination offering something to suit the tastes of every single
different traveller
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