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there were three kinds of karma: the accumulated karma from all our past lives; the karma we created in this life; and the karma we stored to ripen in our future lives.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
People are more gullible and less compassionate than any of us want to believe.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
Success was ephemeral—and fluid—as I’d found out the hard way. It came. It went. It changed you from the outside, but not from the inside. Inside, I was still the same girl who dreamed of a destiny greater than she was allowed. Did I really need the house to prove I had skill, talent, ambition, intelligence? What if—
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
Hadn’t Gandhi-ji said, An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind?
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way it was a simple thing: a lost diary fell into the hands of a soul-sick war hero on a train from Bombay to Jaipur just when he'd grown tired of the scenery and needed something to keep his thoughts from the minefield of his wretched thoughts. In such mild ways is the groundwork laid for first kisses and ruined lives.
Laini Taylor (Lips Touch: Three Times)
He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
Be humble for you are made of earth Be noble for you are made of stars. —SERBIAN PROVERB
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
At this moment, sitting in front of this good, sensible woman, I wanted the thing I hated most in this world. Sympathy. Even more, I hated that I wanted it. Hated myself for my weakness.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
Independence changed everything. Independence changed nothing.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
Just then, my mother’s words echoed in my head: stretch your legs only as far as your bed. I was getting too far ahead of myself.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
I’ve come to think that some people are meant to be in our lives for a certain length of time and not a moment more.
Alka Joshi (The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3))
Jaipur is the finest jewelry ever created on earth, where king was the jeweler and bricks his gems.
Vinita Kinra
Jaipur is a blushing bride draped in pink, dancing in our dreams while the peacocks sing.
Vinita Kinra
The measure of us isn’t in the day-to-day. And it’s not in our past or our future. It’s in the fundamental changes we make within ourselves over a lifetime. Samaj-jao?
Alka Joshi (The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3))
If you want the rose, you must put up with the thorn. —HINDU PROVERB
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
Before independence, these objects had signified my ladies’ admiration for the British. Now, they signified their scorn. My ladies had changed nothing but the reasons for their pretense. If I had learned anything from them, it was this: only a fool lives in water and remains an enemy of the crocodile.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
The one-eyed man is king among the blind,” I replied, smiling.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
My younger sister was lively and curious, which was good, but she was also untamed—and that could be a dangerous combination.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
Success was ephemeral—and fluid—as I’d found out the hard way. It came. It went. It changed you from the outside, but not from the inside.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
There's more power in keeping a secret than in betraying it.
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
Not once had I believed him capable of change. But if I could change, why couldn’t he?
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
If I had learned anything from them, it was this: only a fool lives in water and remains an enemy of the crocodile.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
In India, individual shame did not exist. Humiliation spread, as easily as oil on wax paper, to the entire family, even to distant cousins, uncles, aunts, nieces and nephews. The rumormongers made sure of that. Blame lay heavily in my chest. Had I not deserted my marriage, Radha would not have suffered so much, and Maa and Pitaji would not have been so powerless against an entire village.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
I felt my spirits lift. I would leave the map of my life here, in Jaipur. I would leave behind a hundred thousand henna strikes. I would no longer call myself a henna artist but tell anyone who asked : I healed, I soothed. I made whole. I would leave behind the useless apologies for my disobedience. I would leave behind my yearning to rewrite my past. My skills, my eagerness to learn and my desire for a life I could call my own - these were things I would take with me. They were part of me the way my blood, my breath, my bones were
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
When the Goddess of Wealth comes to give you her blessing, you shouldn’t leave the room to wash your face. —Hindu Proverb
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
The poor weren’t the only ones imprisoned by their caste.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
The measure of us isn’t in the day-to-day. And it’s not in our past or our future. It’s in the fundamental changes we make within ourselves over a lifetime.
Alka Joshi (The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3))
I turn the pages carefully. Our tribal elders may not know how to read, but they revere those who can. "Books contain magic," they say.
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
He looks at his father as if to ask how I could possibly know the queens of Jaipur so well. It’s a small satisfaction, and I feel a deep pleasure as I approach Her Highness.
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
Saasuji once told me there were three kinds of karma: the accumulated karma from all our past lives; the karma we created in this life; and the karma we stored to ripen in our future lives.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway. —MOTHER TERESA
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
I should have known that Moti-Lal would figure it out. More than once, he’s told me selling gold requires an insight into human nature. He says you must be able to discern the intensity of a customer’s desire by looking into their eyes. That will tell you what to show, what to hold back, and how much the customer is willing to part with.
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
I also realize I’m angry at the injustice of it all. Manu’s signature is on everything. He’ll be held responsible for the greatest calamity Jaipur has known in decades. The Singhs will walk away with only a portion of the blame.
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
I cried, a bit, as a spoke to Belinda on my mobile phone, in a quiet corner, perhaps the only quiet corner in Jaipur. I told her how I'd hoped Paul would read the forward, that he'd read how much I admired his work and how much I admired him, how much I just plain liked him and loved him. But, even as I spoke, I knew: Paul had always known that. He'd seen in on my face every time we met. What made me cry was the obvious, stupid fact that we'd never meet again.
Roddy Doyle (Cigar Box Banjo: Notes on Music and Life)
Miss Charlotte was often and spectacularly silent. But her silence was that of the woods and hills, a natural absence of speech. The maharani’s, on the other hand, made Mrs. Watson think of the walled forts of Jaipur, a silence that watched and hid.
Sherry Thomas (The Art of Theft (Lady Sherlock, #4))
Snobs by Julian Fellowes The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee People Like Us by Dominick Dunne The Power of Style by Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins (this is out of print; I will lend you my copy) Pride and Avarice by Nicholas Coleridge The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave Freedom by Jonathan Franzen D. V. by Diana Vreeland A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur by Gayatri Devi Jane Austen—complete works beginning with Pride and Prejudice Edith Wharton—The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, The House of Mirth (must be read in strict order—you will understand why when you finish the last one) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Anthony Trollope—all the books in the Palliser series, beginning with Can You Forgive Her?
Kevin Kwan (China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2))
Samir Singh frequented the pleasure houses of Hazi and Nasreen whenever he had business in Agra. There, Muslim noblemen, Bengali businessmen and Hindu doctors and lawyers smoked hookahs, and ate and drank as the courtesans recited ancient poetry, sang sweet, nostalgic ghazals and performed
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
Being a woman is difficult. I can see why my mother didn’t like her own gender. We can do so much. Give so much. But not everyone wants what we’re offering. And in the end, we’re left with...pieces of a whole. Shards. Splinters. Chips. Pick them up, they cut our hands. Leave them on the ground, they cut our feet. It’s hard for us to just walk away.
Alka Joshi (The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3))
In India, individual shame did not exist. Humiliation spread, as easily as oil on wax paper, to the entire family, even to distant cousins, uncles, aunts, nieces and nephews.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
stretch your legs only as far as your bed. I was getting too far ahead of myself.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
Independence of our country was actually the event of the century, Nikhil.” “Well, I wasn’t alive then, Papaji. But I’m alive
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
Why am I the one who must find the solution to a problem I didn’t cause?
Alka Joshi (The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3))
She expected from me what wasn’t mine to give. Forgiveness. Absolution. I was a stranger.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
He was committed to his ideals. Unfortunately, high ideals came with a price.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind?
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
I wanted the thing I hated most in this world: sympathy. Even more, I hated that I wanted it. Hated myself for my weakness,
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
What is the use of crying when the birds have eaten the whole farm?
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
I would leave behind the useless apologies for my disobedience. I would leave behind the yearning to rewrite my past.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
A wise man to the rest of the world is a nobody at home.
Alka Joshi (The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3))
I never knew there was a place where you could go look at books, much less borrow them, then return them when you are through looking. Imagine! Something that precious!
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
Nimmi and I don’t belong. Not truly. To one set of beliefs, one set of traditions. But we can create our own traditions. Observe those we like, abandon those we don’t.
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
To her, a hill woman accustomed to sleeping in the open air on bedding quilts padded with scraps of old blankets, these two-story Shimla houses, built by the British, must seem obscenely luxurious.
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
There were three kinds of karma: the accumulated karma from all our past lives; the karma we created in this life; and the karma we stored to ripen in our future lives.” ― Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
my own ears, I sound like an overinvolved mother. Is that how Nimmi sees me? I reach for my cup and drain my chai. Malik is twenty, a grown man. But in him I still see the eager, enterprising boy he used to be.
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
Independence changed everything. Independence changed nothing. Eight years after the British left, we now had free government schools, running water and paved roads. But Jaipur still felt the same to me as it had ten years ago, the first time I stepped foot on its dusty soil. On the way to our first appointment of the morning, Malik and I nearly collided with a man carrying cement bags on his head when a bicycle cut between us. The cyclist, hugging a six-foot ladder under his arm, caused a horse carriage to sideswipe a pig, who ran squealing into a narrow alley. At one point, we stepped aside and waited for a raucous band of hijras to pass. The sari-clad, lipstick-wearing men were singing and dancing in front of a house to bless the birth of a baby boy. So accustomed were we to the odors of the city—cow dung, cooking fires, coconut hair oil, sandalwood incense and urine—that we barely noticed them.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
Handbrake found the drive to Jaipur that morning particularly frustrating. The new tarmac-surfaced toll road, which was part of India’s proliferating highway system, had four lanes running in both directions, and although it presented all manner of hazards, including the occasional herd of goats, a few overturned trucks and the odd gaping pothole, it held out an irresistible invitation to speed. Indeed, many of the other cars travelled as fast as 100 miles
Tarquin Hall (The Case of the Missing Servant (Vish Puri, #1))
Snobs by Julian Fellowes The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee People Like Us by Dominick Dunne The Power of Style by Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins (this is out of print; I will lend you my copy) Pride and Avarice by Nicholas Coleridge The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave Freedom by Jonathan Franzen D. V. by Diana Vreeland A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur by Gayatri Devi Jane Austen—complete works beginning with Pride and Prejudice
Kevin Kwan (China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2))
After Dev died in the gorge, I’d became adamant that my children would never suffer the same fate, migrating back and forth with the tribe through the mountains, toes lost to frostbite, the threat of death always only a few paces away.
Alka Joshi (The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2))
Maa was gentle, but firm. She was brought up to obey her parents and her husband, not to defy, question or contradict. She told me Pitaji’s books had filled my head with too many silly ideas. They had given me the useless notion that I could make my own decisions.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
I've given my best, but I've been used. Delphine said I have to move past it. Lakshmi moved past her betrayals. So did Victorine. Isn't that the look she's giving us in Manet's paining? There will always be a Ferdie in our lives. We have to do our best despite them.
Alka Joshi (The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3))
What independence had changed was our people. You could see it in the way they stood, chests puffed, as if they could finally allow themselves to breathe. You saw it in the way they walked—purposefully, pridefully—to their temples. The way they haggled—more boldly than before—with the vendors in the bazaar.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. —From the poem Journey Home by Rabindranath Tagore When the Goddess of Wealth comes to give you her blessing, you shouldn’t leave the room to wash your face. —Hindu Proverb
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
We saw sundials built 300 years ago that are more accurate than any watch or calendar developed electronically today. We got cold feet when it came to crossing the road in Jaipur and decided whatever was on the other side wasn’t worth attempting to cross even on a zebra crossing. We ate in a restaurant that clearly indicated ‘No firearms or guns permitted,’ which made us feel safe. We saw a street fight in Agra over a traffic situation, the only one in the whole ten days. And we learned that when a car driver honks his horn it means, “I’m turning left,” or “I’m turning right,” or “I’m going straight ahead,” or “I’m overtaking on the inside,” or “I’m overtaking on the outside,” or “I just feel like honking my horn for absolutely no reason whatsoever other than I haven’t done it in a while.
Karl Wiggins (Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe)
We warily sipped ‘fresh’ buffalo milk in a Krishna temple. We travelled into the Himalayas until, at a height of two kilometres above sea level where we found ourselves surrounded by men as hard and tough as the mountains that bred them. We negotiated a price of 100 rupees for one of these men to carry our two heaviest bags the 15-minute walk to the hotel with nothing more than rope and a forehead strap. I paid him 300 rupees and his face lit up! We watched the morning mist clear to reveal views of the green Doon Valley and the distant white-capped Himalayan peaks. We rode an elephant up to the Amber Fort of Jaipur, and the next day we painted, washed and fed unpeeled bananas to another elephant, marvelling at her gentle nature as we placed the bananas on her huge bubble-gum coloured tongue.
Karl Wiggins (Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe)
Our senses were assaulted with colours, smells and noise. We saw a million saris, and never once did I see the same pattern repeated twice. We saw poverty that both humbled and disturbed us. We bartered with street traders for Indian prices, not tourist prices. We stopped by the side of the road and watched an old man crushing sugar canes so that we could drink the juice. It was the most delectable and flavourful drink we have ever tasted. We walked barefoot around the Swaminarayan Akshardham, the largest Hindu house of worship in the world, and were absolutely awed. The whole temple echoes with spirituality and we could have spent an entire day there. I saw a village of dirty black bricks, no rendering, just filth and grime, and right in the middle an exquisite and elegant white temple, freshly painted and unblemished. We drove from Jaipur to Delhi. The previous day the road had been closed due to the Jat caste protests. Thirty people died, ten women reported being raped and buildings and cars were set on fire
Karl Wiggins (Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe)
per hour. Handbrake knew that he could keep up with the best of them. Ambassadors might look old-fashioned and slow, but the latest models had Japanese engines. But he soon learned to keep it under seventy. Time and again, as his competitors raced up behind him and made their impatience known by the use of their horns and flashing high beams, he grudgingly gave way, pulling into the slow lane among the trucks, tractors and bullock carts. Soon, the lush mustard and sugarcane fields of Haryana gave way to the scrub and desert of Rajasthan. Four hours later, they reached the rocky hills surrounding the Pink City, passing in the shadow of the Amber Fort with its soaring ramparts and towering gatehouse. The road led past the Jal Mahal palace, beached on a sandy lake bed, into Jaipur’s ancient quarter. It was almost noon and the bazaars along the city’s crenellated walls were stirring into life. Beneath faded, dusty awnings, cobblers crouched, sewing sequins and gold thread onto leather slippers with curled-up toes. Spice merchants sat surrounded by heaps of lal mirch, haldi and ground jeera, their colours as clean and sharp as new watercolor paints. Sweets sellers lit the gas under blackened woks of oil and prepared sticky jalebis. Lassi vendors chipped away at great blocks of ice delivered by camel cart. In front of a few of the shops, small boys, who by law should have been at school, swept the pavements, sprinkling them with water to keep down the dust. One dragged a doormat into the road where the wheels of passing vehicles ran over it, doing the job of carpet beaters. Handbrake honked his way through the light traffic as they neared the Ajmeri Gate, watching the faces that passed by his window: skinny bicycle rickshaw drivers, straining against the weight of fat aunties; wild-eyed Rajasthani men with long handlebar moustaches and sun-baked faces almost as bright as their turbans; sinewy peasant women wearing gold nose rings and red glass bangles on their arms; a couple of pink-faced goras straining under their backpacks; a naked sadhu, his body half covered in ash like a caveman. Handbrake turned into the old British Civil Lines, where the roads were wide and straight and the houses and gardens were set well apart. Ajay Kasliwal’s residence was number
Tarquin Hall (The Case of the Missing Servant (Vish Puri, #1))
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It was the respectable cover Samir offered me that cinched the deal. I could offer my henna to high-caste women like his wife while I discreetly sold my contraceptive tea sachets to his friends and acquaintances. When Parvati lamented her inability to conceive, I fed her what my saas would have—red clover, primrose oil and
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
sifted through my hair with my fingers. Saasuji once told me there were three kinds of karma: the accumulated karma from all our past lives; the karma we created in this life; and the karma we stored to ripen in our future lives. I asked myself which karma had led to my marriage with Hari. And deserting my family—was that a new karma I had created or was it a karma
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
I couldn’t go back to Maa and Pitaji.” She knew as well as I did that, once married, a woman was her husband’s property. Unhappy wives couldn’t just go back home to their parents, expecting sympathy. Some families even changed their daughter-in-law’s first name as soon as she came to their household, as if her previous self had never existed.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
Independence changed everything. Independence changed nothing. Eight years after the British left, we now had free government schools, running water and paved roads. But Jaipur still felt the same to me as it had ten years ago, the first time I stepped foot on its dusty soil.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS THE STORY OF HENNA RADHA’S RECIPE FOR HENNA PASTE THE CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA MALIK’S RECIPE FOR BATTI BALLS THE PALACE RECIPE FOR ROYAL RABRI The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. —From the poem Journey Home by Rabindranath Tagore
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For Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur and the other Rajput courts, this was also an age of empowerment and resurgence as they resumed their independence and, free from the tax burdens inherent in bowing to Mughal overlordship, began using their spare revenues to add opulent
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I saw myself at Radha’s age, too shy to look at boys or men, much less talk to them. Maa had made sure of it: Men will eat even unripe fruit
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What did it feel like? What did I know of love?
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If I hadn’t been so selfish, this would not have happened. My sister would not have been sullied. My mother-in-law would not have died without me to comfort her. My parents would not have been humiliated. And for what? So I could live a life of my own? How self-centered I had been!
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
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Gupta and Singh (1982) found that couples in Jaipur, India, who married for love reported diminished feelings of love if they'd been married for more than five years. By contrast, those who'd undertaken arranged marriages reported more love if they weren't newlyweds. These findings reveal that passionate love "cools" over time, and that there's scope for love to flourish within an arranged marriage.
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In India, individual shame did not exist. Humiliation spread, as easily as oil on wax paper, to the entire family, even to distant cousins, uncles, aunts, nieces, and nephews. The rumormongers made sure of that.
Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1))
Before independence, most Jaipur families lived in cramped family compounds inside the old Pink City. But generations of Singhs had always lived on an expansive estate outside the city walls. They were from the ruling class—rajas and minor princes, commissioned army officers—long used to privilege before, during and even after British rule. The Singh estate was on a wide boulevard lined with peepal trees. Eight-foot-high walls spiked with glass shards protected the two-story mansion from view. A marble veranda, overhung with bougainvillea and jasmine vines, extended along the front and sides of each story, and cooled the house in summer, when Jaipur could get as hot as a tandoori oven.
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Radha stood to one side of the long table where I kept my herbs, her hands clasped behind her. Her eyes had the wariness of a wild animal.
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I shook Radha’s shoulder to wake her. There was much I had to teach her, and soon.
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Day after day, I worked alongside her to heal women. Most were children still. Twenty years old or younger, bodies weak from too many births, too many of them rough. Their days were filled with worry about how to feed them and, at night, they prayed that their husbands would come home from work too tired to add to their troubles. One day, Saasuji taught me how to prepare the contraceptive tea, and I realized that cottonwood bark could change a woman's life. She could choose for herself. That was what I wanted: a life that could fulfill me in a way that children wouldn't.
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Ma was gentle but firm. She was brought up to obey her parents and her husband, not to defy, question, or contradict. She told me Pitaji's books had filled my head with too many silly ideas. They had given me the useless notion that I could make my own decisions.
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...and once there were children, there would be no more I or me, only we and them. So often I'd beg my namesake, the goddess Lakshmi, to hear my pleas. I'm hungry for the knowledge of three sarasoti's Let me see the wider world before shutting me inside a small life...
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Indian Railways is the fourth largest rail network in the world These are the top 5 most luxurious trains which have the best beautiful views from the window of your seat and serve the best hospitality. These trains pass through beautiful places. Surely your experience will be at the next level. Maharajas' Express : It runs between October and April, covering around 12 destinations most of which lie in Rajasthan. Palace on Wheels: The train starts its journey from New Delhi and covers Jaipur, Sawai Madhopur, Chittorgarh, Udaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Bharatpur, and Agra, before returning to Delhi. If you plan on experiencing this royal journey, make sure you have Rs. 3,63,300 to spend! The Golden Chariot : you can take a ride along the Southern State of Karnataka and explore while living like a VIP on wheels. You start from Bengaluru and then go on to visit famous tourist attractions like Hampi, Goa and Mysore to name a few. The Golden Chariot also boasts of a spa, a gym and restaurants too. The Deccan Odyssey: The Deccan Odyssey can give you tours across destinations in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat. It starts from Mumbai, covers 10 popular tourist locations including Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Goa, Aurangabad, Ajanta-Ellora Nasik, Pune, returning to Mumbai. Maha Parinirvan Express / Buddha Circuit Train: The Buddha Express travels through parts of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, where Buddism originated over 2,500 years ago. This isn’t as opulent as the other luxury Indian trains and instead drops passengers off at hotels at famous tourist destinations such as Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda.
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