Word: rajasthani
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...others produced in India at the time. Three Aspects of the Absolute, from 1823, is a startlingly modern triptych, with a plain gold panel to evoke the Absolute, followed by two others on which a holy man is depicted merging with the divine essence through yoga. Created by a Rajasthani artist named Bulaki, it jives uncannily with a contemporary aesthetic. The paint - real gold - hums with a depth and intensity that curator Richard Blurton compares to the work of 20th century abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko: "People today understand that a single panel of wonderful color can be thrilling." (Read Mark...
...Indian Summer," a five-month celebration of Indian culture. The exhibition's centerpiece is "Garden and Cosmos," a collection of 54 bold 17th and 19th century paintings from the courts of Jodhpur, in the modern-day state of Rajasthan. Never before seen in Europe, the pictures draw on Rajasthani artists' varied approaches to color and form as well as the miniature techniques of the Mughals. While some subjects are classic - scenes from the Ramayana, or maharajahs daintily sniffing roses in marble palaces - the most spectacular pieces attempt to capture the metaphysical concepts of Being and the Divine...
...recent afternoon finds Kathputli's trash-choked alleys shaking with the distant drumming and singing of nine women rehearsing for an upcoming show. Dressed in brightly colored saris, they sit cross-legged in a small room thumping on giant hand drums while their lilting voices croon Rajasthani folk songs. Elsewhere, 16-year-old acrobat Maya Pawar practices balancing a bottle on her forehead, while touching her foot to the back of her head. Scars on her stomach mark the time she was run over by a bus as a little girl, while chasing money thrown into the street...
...hotelier's family is typical Rajasthani aristocracy, a fixture of the majestically violent landscape that has drawn tourists to this arid northwestern state of India for decades. But there is a difference, at least in this remote Shekhawati region of Rajasthan where Mandawa sits, a scorching five-and-half-hour drive through the desert from New Delhi. But rather than reminisce about the martial adventures of his forefathers, Kesri Singh is preoccupied these days with his former subjects, the "Marwari" merchants who were once moneylenders and traders in the dusty camel-filled town that sprawls around the ramparts...
...hard to see why Mittal should feel so strongly about retaining family control. Money is in his name: Lakshmi is the Hindu goddess of wealth. But former neighbors say he was born almost penniless, growing up in Sadulpur, a small Rajasthani town in an area of thorn trees and sand dunes in western India, in a house built by his grandfather. The extended family of 20 lived on bare concrete floors, slept on rope beds and cooked on an open fire in the brick yard. "They didn't have any income," says Sushil Kumar Saraogi, 61, editor of the weekly...