Just how Orhan Pamuk’s ‘My Name is Red’ experiments with your imagination playing with the myriad hues, shapes, ideas, stories, and colours of the Ottoman Empire; Shekhawati enforces you to envision the tales of the most revered silk route period by carefully imbibing the murals on the walls. These murals are the display of the …
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The Woman Who Loved – Orchha, Madhya Pradesh
Rai Praveen. A royal tale is seldom without a love story. Anarkali and Salim, since immortalised on celluloid by K Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam, something like that. So, why should Orchha be any different? A small little town tucked away amidst the sprawling wilderness of Bundelkhand, Orchha was once a princely-state. While now dwarfed magnificently by the …