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Jodhpur: Selling a thousand eggs a day by the roadside

by Ajay Jain on October 21, 2009

in Rajasthan

Jodhpur: Selling a thousand eggs a day by the roadside

Jodhpur: The Omelette Shop selling 1,000 eggs a dayWho came first: the chicken or the egg? What happened first: Jodhpur’s Omelette Shop becoming famous or the coverage in Lonely Planet making it so?

The shop, opened in 1974 by Ram Kishen, is one busy shop. Selling a thousand eggs a day, half of them as omelletes and the rest boiled. Spiced to taste, with our without slices of bread, these cost as little as Rs. 10-15 (20-30 cents) a portion. It opens at 10 am, and closes just before midnight. Go at peak hours and Ram Kishen will have no time to talk to you. The clientele are mostly travellers in the day, and locals in the evening. [continue reading…]

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Paliwal Brahmins of Kuldhara near Jaisalmer vanished into the night

by Ajay Jain on October 8, 2009

in Rajasthan

Paliwal Brahmins of Kuldhara near Jaisalmer vanished into the night

jaisalmer-kuldhara-150109-026This is one of the most bizarre stories of human migration one can hear.

Drive 18 km west of Jaisalmer and you will come upon the village of Kuldhara. Once a prosperous settlement of the Paliwal Brahmins, all the residents of Kuldhara and 83 nearby villages vanished suddenly one night in 1825, having lived there since 1291. In all likelihood they set up base somewhere beyond Jodhpur but no one has ever been sure.

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