Archive for September 2022
Tales of Two Cities: Princes and Paupers at Play
The skies above Jaipur are sometimes battle zones. Colorful battles. It’s just one reason Rajasthan is generally acknowledged to be India’s most colorful state. Children often rush home from school and climb to the rooftops of their homes for kite fights. They use kite string that cuts the strings of other kites. The…
Read More »“A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time”
“Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.” ~~ Sir Edwin Arnold, English poet I love the quote used for this title from Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet and writer. There is no question that the Taj Mahal is…
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