Today is celebrated as the Tejaji festival across rural Rajasthan, and everybody in the village where Savista is situated is looking forward to the procession this evening which will commemorate the life of this folk hero. Savista’s staff took off[…]
Over March 20/21 – when the world in the northern hemisphere was bonding over the Spring Equinox, the special day in the year of equal day and night – special things began happening at Savista too! As if due to[…]
The winter just gone by at Savista was what we might call a ‘normal’ one, i.e. temperatures were as expected. Throughout the season our gardens remained green and lush, and the fields around us a verdant green-yellow with wheat, mustard[…]
Ganesh Chaturthi – the festival in adoration of Ganesha – was celebrated all overIndiaon September 1. The elephant-headed Ganesha is revered as the god of auspicious beginnings. His representation – an outsized elephant head that sits on a human body[…]
On August 30th., Muslims in Jaipur celebrate with Muslims across the world, the conclusion of the thirty days of the fasting month of Ramadan. It is an Eid (festivity), and because it marks the end of Ramadan, it is called[…]
Today is one of the most important and loved festivals of the Hindu calendar – the birth of Lord Krishna. On this 8th. day (ashtami) after the full moon in the month of Shravan, at the stroke of midnight, the[…]
The fesitval of Sawan Teej starts tomorrow! Teej is a celebration of the beginning of the Hindu holy month of Sravan. Sravan is celebrated throughout India under many different names, but the celebration is most extraordinary in Jaipur and is known[…]
For most of us Indian coastal city-slickers, mangroves are nature’s protective mechanisms in the tropics that work to human advantage by maintaining the balance between sea and shoreline. Never mind that what we actually see of them along our city[…]