Jaipur

India shocked as dying woman, child ignored in busy tunnel for 40 minutes

17 Apr 2013

India embarked on another bout of soul-searching yesterday over a shocking video showing passers-by ignoring a man's pleas after his wife and daughter were killed in a road accident. CCTV footage...

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Keeping Jaipur a storytellers' paradise even as it grows

6 Jan 2013

Jaipur, also known as the "Pink City", is generally regarded as an essential destination for anyone navigating the subcontinent. There are palaces and forts, elephants and camels, and fabulously...

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Hot spots: Devi Ratn, Jaipur

12 Aug 2012

What is it? Devi Ratn is a countryside resort located in India's Rajasthan state, 10 kilometres from Jaipur and years into the future.

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The Treehouse Resort, Jaipur

18 Sep 2011

What's the story behind it? It goes something like this: owner Sunil Mehta, who lives in the 'pink city' of Jaipur, in India's Rajasthan state, wanted to buy some fertile land outside the city...

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Where the book is still king

6 Feb 2011

For five days last month, I felt like a Nobel Prize winner. Thanks to my white goatee, everyone at the DSC Jaipur Literary Festival, now Asia's largest, kept asking me to sign the books of...

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Travellers' checks

13 Dec 2009

Wild encounters

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Memorable year-end moments

Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Perhaps, but sometimes the strangest and most unusual New Year's are also the most memorable.

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England banking on bowlers to deliver goods

England's bowling strength can help them go the whole way today, said one-day specialist Dimitri Mascarenhas, who spearheaded the four-time champions into the top four yesterday.

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The Boutique at Amanbagh

Where? In luxury resort Amanbagh, which can be found on a vast desert expanse that once served as a tiger-hunting ground for the maharaja of Alwar.

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Day job

When designers in the 19th century began considering different ways to allow the body to rest, they came up with day beds, which are geared towards relaxation rather than sleep.

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A royal welcome behind palace walls

Waiters must go through a daily ritual before starting duty at the Rambagh Palace Hotel in Jaipur.

Royalty no longer resides in the palace outside the walled city, but tradition lives...

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An elephant ride with the rajas

THERE are several ways to climb into the Aravalli Hills to visit the magnificent Amber Palace, but to recall the regal splendour of old, do it in the style of the maharajas, on your own elephant...

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