Priti Talkies

Photo credits @Colourbox A couple of summers back our daughter, looking a picture of perfect morning dishevelment, came tearing through the door, running her daily-designated path to our room with as much impatience as a ten year old could muster. Her holidays had started and we had yet to decide where to go. It was sacrilegious that three days had already been wasted and the confusion continued to persist when our daughter’s insistence on seeing sand dunes finally settled the matter (thanks to the chapter “The Great Indian Desert” in her Social Studies book). She was very curious for the experience, so Jaisalmer it was. We set off to feast on the blazing sunsets and golden sand dunes crossing places like Dechu, Chacha and Pokharan on the way. Jaisalmer, a cairngorm in the barren vastness of dust, is undoubtedly one of Rajasthan’s most beautiful cities that blends so perfectly with its natural surroundings that are so gracefully annotated with the pristine calligraphy of cac