lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Oct 25, 2011, 4:57 am
National Flag Of India In Jaipur On the auspicious occasion of Dhanteras,24.10.2011, Jaipur, gets the tallest, National Flag of India which will fly around the clock in the Central Park of Jaipur. Listed here are some interesting facts about this Flag. The height of the flag pole is 207 feet.( Ta...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Aug 20, 2011, 1:26 pm
Steam-The Lounge, At The Rambagh Palace Today I read an article about 10 unusual restaurants of India. A facebook  friend had shared the link. Being on facebook has its uses, you know! Jaipur did not feature in the list. So naturally I had to make a list of restaurants unique to Jaipur. 1.The Din...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Aug 19, 2011, 9:30 am
Cooked leg piece-Raan How To Cook A Raan At Home Serves 4 persons Marinade Ginger Paste 2 Tea Spoons Heaping Garlic Paste  2 Tea Spoons Heaping Curd 400 gms Strained ( with as little water in it as possible) Rum 1 large peg Kachri Powder 2 Tea Spoons 2 Tea Spoons Red Chillie Powder Salt Â...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Aug 9, 2011, 9:15 pm
Teej Festival Living in Jaipur is as difficult or as easy as living any where else but here are some reasons why you will fall in love with Jaipur. In the twelve months of a year you get to experience a whole gamut of  weather in Jaipur. There is hot summer, cold winter, hot & humid monsoons & th...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Aug 8, 2011, 8:09 am
Elephants of Jaipur Who does not know about the elephants of Amber? We have seen them at the foothill of the Amber fort waiting for their turn to give us a ride up to the Fort. We have seen them around the city in marriage processions and the yearly Teej & Gangaur processions & we have seen them pe...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Aug 4, 2011, 4:29 am
Karan's Guest house,Jaipur Recently we launched the revamped official website of Karan’s Guest House, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. A budget guest house we provide Air-conditioned rooms in a homely atmosphere with personalized service. Please visit us at the web address www.karans.info Karan’s Gue...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Jul 19, 2011, 6:12 am
You made it to Jaipur! Now what? From the autowallah who brought you from the station to your hotel to the friendly staff of the hotel all have plans for you. Somebody wants to take you shopping somebody else wants you to go out for dinner. But you want to know your options.  How best to manage wi...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Jul 4, 2011, 10:00 am
Sisodia Raani Ka Baagh,Jaipur,Rajasthan,India. No two ways about it Jaipur is in the middle of the monsoon. Though the rains are taking there own sweet time to come as and when they see fit. A couple of days of rain and the rain lily is in full bloom. Pink, yellow, white, big or small the rain lily...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Jun 8, 2011, 7:48 am
As I write this post it is well above 42 Degrees Centigrade out side. My FM radio says the roads are deserted. The ceiling fan in the room is just throwing more hot air around  the room. This post is about all the cool things you can do, only in summers, when the mercury in the thermometers is rais...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - May 24, 2011, 1:05 pm
Here is a simple recipe to cook Cottage Cheese Masala ( Paneer Masala) for two. Time Taken : 40 Min. 200 gms Paneer ( Cottage Cheese) 2 Medium Onions Minced 1 Medium Tomato Minced 2 Green Chillies Minced 1 Tea Spoon Garlic Paste ( Heaping) 100 gm Fresh Curd 100 gm Butter 100 gm Fresh  Crea...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - May 19, 2011, 4:33 pm
Viratnagar is about 86 km from Jaipur on the Jaipur-Shahpura-Alwar route. You have to turn for Viratnagar at Shahpura on Jaipur Delhi Highway. But why Viratnagar? Who goes to Viratnagar? You might ask. A little time invested in visiting the sights this town has to offer will pay rich dividends, yo...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - May 19, 2011, 11:14 am
An exhibit in the Science Park of Jaipur The Science Park of Jaipur is located in the Shastri Nagar colony of Jaipur on a parcel of land measuring  over three acres. Besides  interactive scientific models it also has powerful telescopes, a planetarium, an IT Gallery show casing the advances in c...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - May 11, 2011, 4:38 pm
The Alankar Museum at The Jawahar Kala Kendra(JKK) showcasing  Rajasthani art & cultural artifacts  is now open to the public. It is a timely and creditable effort to collect all the artifacts just now before they disappear forever from  apathy on our part. When  you visit the museum you might ...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - May 10, 2011, 10:06 pm
Karan’s Guesthouse, Jaipur is now on Facebook. So if you like this  Blog click here and press the like button! Follow us on Twitter! By: Twitter Buttons Subscribe us on Feedburner! Subscribe to Karan’s Guest House Thank You! Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Button, Facebook, Jaipur, Lik...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - May 10, 2011, 9:48 am
About 65km from Jaipur the city of Sambhar with the salt lake & the migratory birds it attracts and the holy places of Shakmbhari Mata temple & Devyani Tank is an ideal spot for a day trip excursion out of Jaipur. Sambhar Lake is the largest salt lake in India. It has produced salt for more than 70...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - May 5, 2011, 11:29 am
At The Kaila Devi Temple Mahatama Kedargiri established the idols of Kaila Devi in the lap of Aravali mountain range on the banks of Kalisil river, in the Kaila village, in the year 1114 AD. Kalisil is a tributary of Banas river. When Mahatama Kedargiri was praying to the Goddess to stay in Kaila v...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - May 5, 2011, 8:48 am
Recently, I was on one of my rare visits to Delhi & I had my camera with me. So I could not resist going to Jantar Mantar  on Sansad Marg in Delhi to take pictures for my collection. The first difference which struck me was the red color. The instruments are all colored in red. The Jantar Mantar i...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - May 5, 2011, 4:33 am
These pictures are from the overnight visit Madhav, a cousin, and I took with our sons to Sariska Tiger Reserve & National Park & Alwar. Sariska is some 110 km from Jaipur. We went on the Jaipur-Delhi Highway till Shahpura where we turned for Thana Gazi & The Fort View Camp. This camp site is manag...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Apr 14, 2011, 6:14 pm
The  art of painting the walls & floors of their homes by the ladies of the house with simple or intricate drawings is practiced almost all over India, though the names by which it is called may vary from state to state. In Rajasthan it is called ‘Mandana’. The designs are as many and as varied...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Apr 13, 2011, 12:39 pm
Jaldhara A  year on Jaldhara is as popular as ever amongst the city youth. Jaldhara is a ‘Paryavaran Maitri Shetra’ which is spread over a strip of land about 800 mts in length. It is situated on the JLN Marg near OTS in the Jawahar ‘nallah’. It starts nears the Forest Department Nursery a...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Apr 10, 2011, 3:04 pm
You must have heard the English idiom ‘God is in the details’. It is very relevant when you are traveling in India off the beaten track by a RSRTC bus & are not a seasoned traveler of this vast land of ours. I had to go to Kaila Devi for darshan yesterday so I packed a toothbrush and hopped ont...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Apr 6, 2011, 3:31 pm
Gangaur is one of the most important festivals of Rajasthan.The word, Gangaur, is derived from joining the two words ‘Gan’ meaning Lord Shiva and’Gauri’ meaning Goddess Parvati, his consort. As per lore, it is believed that Gangaur is celebrated ever since  Goddess Parvati returned to he...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Apr 3, 2011, 3:54 pm
The  Indian Broadcasting Co., a private company, made the first sound broadcast on 23rd July 1927 in Bombay. Before this private radio clubs in Bombay, Madras & Calcutta  were broadcasting sound in India. However  the company failed within three years and was later absorbed in AIR. All India Radi...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Mar 28, 2011, 6:57 pm
Recently my wife went shopping in the Johri Bazaar and came home with some spools & a couple of cards of  gota ribbons. When I asked her what she would do with them she said that they were for a saree. But she had no idea which saree she would use them on. Between you & me I doubt if she even has a...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Mar 22, 2011, 2:53 pm
The 'Kos Minar' at The Veer Tejaji Circle in Mansarovar,Jaipur Kos Minars or Mile pillars  used to be the mile stones on the Mughal Highways or trade routes which  inter-connected the Mughal Empire . They were first made by Sher Shah Suri to mark the distance. A kos  measures 2 miles of distance...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Mar 19, 2011, 5:32 pm
It is, holi- the festival of colors, today. Winter is gone. The trees are shedding dry leaves. The various colors and shapes of Guldaudi are just a pleasant  memory now. So I decided to do a post on Chrysanthemums. The word,  Chrysanthemum, is a combination of two Greek words, ‘chrysos’ meani...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Mar 13, 2011, 1:57 am
While you are surfing the net  you get to know a lot different things you might not have known about before. Some you might have use for, some you file away for future reference, some might trigger something in your brain and you are doing something wholly  unrelated to the job you were trying to ...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Mar 7, 2011, 5:24 pm
These are some of the photos of the newly renovated Jal Mahal Palace in the Man Sagar Lake,Jaipur. It is a huge project as you can see and a lot of work has been done. But  a lot of work needs to be done yet though the buzz is they are going to open it to the public in the near future. I have been...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Jan 11, 2011, 1:23 pm
If for some reason you have to stay in Jaipur for a longish period of time-what do you do-how do you pass the time of the day? You have been to all the Forts in Jaipur, shopped for all your friends, seen all the museums, now what? You can delve a bit deeper in to the Jaipur other people breeze thro...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Nov 15, 2010, 11:43 am
My father used to remind us time and again that nothing in life was for free but he also said that the streets were paved with money and one only had to pick it up.   His implication was that a little work would see to it that our pocket were full of money. He was right naturally but don’t  we m...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Oct 10, 2010, 8:33 am
Serves Four Time Taken to Prepare – about 90 Min Ingredients Onions 4 large minced Oil 1 cup Red chilli powder 3 tea spoons heaping ( or to taste) Coriander Powder 3 tea spoons heaping( or same proportion as the red chillies) Turmeric Powder 1/2 tea Spoon Salt -One and a half Tea Spoon (No...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Aug 13, 2010, 6:36 pm
Rice & Green Moong Lentil To Serve: 1  OR 2 Persons Time Taken: About 30 minutes Ingredients: Green Moon Dal( This is moong lentils with the green covering unlike the yellow moong dal): 4 heaping Table Spoons. Rice: 4 heaping Table Spoons. Turmeric Powder: 1/4 Tea Spoon Salt: To Taste Water...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Aug 11, 2010, 10:03 am
Spotted Owlet (Athene brama indica) Recently a cousin of mine,Madhav Rathore, an experienced, enthusiastic birder, bought a  Canon EOS 7D with a huge telephoto lens. When I kidded him about buying   such an expensive  camera he insisted on taking me birding in  the Central Park one evening. Tha...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Jul 26, 2010, 12:24 pm
According to the information passed down over the years  the  Pujari ji of  The Hanuman Temple in Dhuleshwar Garden,C-Scheme, believes it to be some 500 years old. He says he   remembers it as a big chabutra with a neem tree, a room for the idol and a kitchen. Under the soothing  shadow of a h...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - May 4, 2010, 12:07 pm
Panoramic views around the Jaipur City. Filed under: Accomodation, Around Jaipur, Forts, GuestHouse, india, Jaipur, Jaipuri, Photos, rajasthan, rajasthani, temple, Temples Tagged: amber fort jai garh fort panorama, garh ganesh temple, Jal mahal panorama, Nahargarh Fort Panorama, sunrise at jal maha...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - May 3, 2010, 1:29 pm
Under Geographical Indication of  Goods Registration and Protection Act.1999  Sanganeri  hand block Textiles and Furnishings have been recognized to have  a unique identity in manufacturing and in belonging  to the area of Sanganer.Consequently sale of  hand block or screen printed product fro...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Apr 18, 2010, 6:30 am
Do you know about the people who photograph and blog everything they eat? So many people are doing this that camera manufacturers are even providing a setting to shoot the food at its colorful best. In that general trend I would like to suggest that we blog about the tree we are most proud of i...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Apr 10, 2010, 3:41 pm
This list is for the hard core gaming fans among the teens or the young adults of Jaipur.Do you want to play COUNTERSTRIKE?  All night?  It is possible at the Zapak. Do you want to hire a MINI cinema hall for the two of you or the family and the  friends? It is very much possible at the MGF Mall ...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Apr 10, 2010, 7:51 am
Here are some of my favourite photographs I have put up on Flickr.com during the past year for your reconsideration. I hope you like them too! Filed under: Accomodation, Around Jaipur, Bird Watching, birds, City Life, culture, Forts, Gardens, GuestHouse, History, Hotels, india, Jaipur, Jaipuri, mon...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Apr 9, 2010, 4:09 pm
These are some of the best hangouts Jaipur has to offer the young of today. The following list is a personal point of view you might not agree with it. Further more there might be glaring omissions please feel free to list your favourites. Cafe Kooba, F-40,Ist Floor & Terrace, Jamnalal Bajaj Ma...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Mar 30, 2010, 10:38 pm
We kill trees all the time. Some of us might need the wood or the bark or the fruit or leaves or  we might need the right of way where the tree is standing. We can kill it by neglect or lack of water or manure. But the worst and the most lamentable  way we can kill a tree is by throwing  Amar Bel...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Mar 30, 2010, 10:52 am
We have become so used to our noisy surroundings that we do not notice the noise any more. But how much is too much? Recently the State Government has outlawed the use of loud speakers after 10 pm. If  anybody is found using sound magnification equipment after 10 o’clock the equipment will be...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Mar 28, 2010, 9:02 pm
If all goes as budgeted  by 2015 eleven cities in Rajasthan will get LPG (Cooking Gas) delivered to their homes by pipeline. The eleven cities are Bharatpur, Alwar, Nimrana, Jaisalmer, Udaipur, Bhilwara, Bhiwadi, Jaipur, Sriganganagar, Jodhpur and Ajmer. I am sure the authorities have studied the ...
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lokendra rathore posted an article on A Few Details About Jaipur - Mar 23, 2010, 1:32 pm
The trees are already shedding their leaves and it is getting warmer in Jaipur. Every morning the streets and home courtyards are littered with fallen leaves. People gather them up and throw them  in the nearby dumpster, thinking their duty is done. What happens next is the dumpster overflows and t...
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