Monday, September 23, 2013

Stylish Men Part 01

As the title suggests, its a rarity to find well dressed stylish men especially Indians. So am gonna keep my eyes wide open, they had always been, and post images or link if and when I come across any. Right now I cant wait to share these stylish Sardars!

Don't you all agree with me?

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Kathputli


Besides magnificent havelis, palaces, color, miniature art and delicious food, Rajasthan also worldly famous for its string puppet theatre aka Kathputli. It is the most popular form of Indian puppetry. Being a string marionette, it is controlled by a single string that passes from the top of the puppet over the puppeteers.

Kathputli is a join of two rajasthani language words Kath meaning wood and Putli meaning a doll which has no life . Kathputli means a puppet which is made entirely from wood. However it is made out of wood, cotton cloth and metal wire.

Rajasthani people are educated through puppet shows in many parts of the state. The shows tackled problems like the dowry system, women's empowerment, illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, and cleanliness. These puppet shows made people aware of the social problems that everybody was facing and also showed ways of solving them.














Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Turban-ology



The turban room at Bagor Ki Haveli (Udaipur) is full of imagination and inspiration and history. It consists of Turbans from various states of India and shown their ways of how to tie. It houses worlds largest turban of 3 feet wide (sorry I don't have a picture to share here) and have three different looks to it from every corner representing Rajasthani, Gujarati and Maharashtrian.

It's a must visit! 










Horror!

In much of Indian cinema, horror as a genre has been reduced to camp, over the top, either too costumy or showing nudity, bad acting and ner...