| TAL CHHAPAR
& SHEKHARWATI
Shekhawati is simply beautiful. Every street, house
and wall has the stamp of an artist's imagination in paint.
Wherever you cast an eye, frescoes smile back. The plethora
of these murals comes rather as a surprise in a land which
is traditionally known as an 'impoverished corner of an arid
land'. But then the whole of Rajasthan, which is partly sandy
and partly rugged and blessed only in a few places with a
lake or a patch of green, is an exercise in color. Color which
is the everyday life of the people. Color which the people
live in to counter that of the semi-arid scrub. Color that
people give to their surroundings… You just have to
visit Shekhawati to believe what a riot color and imagination
can create together, the Shekhawati which is Rajasthan's very
own Open Air Art Gallery.
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