Pushkar: The Food Scene

[I am going to experiment with a new wordpress-feature (new for me) called ‘pagination’, here. The post will contain more than one page. Page numbers are there at the end of the post, near the ‘comments-box’. I’ll be happy if you let me know your views on it. Even a simple ‘yay’ or ‘nay’ would do.]

Please note:
Pushkar is known to be a holy-city, and hence there ain’t any non-veg food happening in the city. Nor is alcohol welcome anywhere. That said, there is this other medium of inebriation, for which, the city is very well known. It is called ‘bhang’, or cannabis. You can read my experience with ‘bhang’ here. For the rest of the food-scenario, please read on.

Happy reading!

The food scenario in Pushkar is just like the city itself: ‘multi-faceted’.

Jaipur Literature Festival, 2012 (Day 1)

The Jaipur Literature Festival has interested me since its inception in the year 2006. It is another matter that it took me all these years to pay it a visit. But finally in 2012, I did get to visit it, courtesy my adamant college-best-friend, who, hence forth would be mentioned as BFF in this post. When BFF proposed the idea, there were still 15 days to go for the festival and since it wasn’t looming right over my head, I promised to her that we would attend the festival that year. But right after two weeks, there I was, staring at the cross-road I avoided two weeks ago, with my smooth promise.

As per her plan, we could visit Jaipur over the weekend, skipping the first and the last two days, which happened to be a Friday and Monday-Tuesday, respectively.That way, we (read she) would not need to apply for leaves from office as she had Saturday and Sunday off from work. I am an entrepreneur with a start-up, so the question of leaves just did not arise. Back then, I was working 8 days a week and 2 days seemed a bit too expensive to me. Thankfully better sense prevailed just in time and we made our bookings 20 hours (that is still a lot of time by the fashion industry standards, where things aren’t really planned and they happen just as-you-go) before our departure. We booked to go by bus to Jaipur and stay there for two days and be back by train on Sunday night.