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#Sambhar lake, a Ramsar wetland is the largest salt water inland lake in #India. This 230sqkm area lake located in borders of 3 districts in #Rajasthan. Sambhar lake is center of migratory birds incl flamingos. Due to manmade disaster, known as deathbed for Migratory birds 1/n 
#Rajasthan has numerous salt water lakes like Pachpadra, Sambhar, Didwana, Kanod, Lawan & Thob in Thar desert. Sambhar lake has a catchment of 7560sqkm. It is a endorheic basin with no outlet. Important river sources are Mendha(3600sqkm), Rupangarh(625sqkm), Kharian & Khandel 2/n
Because I shoot food-shows all over the country, I come across some incredible traditional kitchens and bartan. This is in a village in the mountains of Tons Valley in Garhwal. I love the kanse ke bartan. And just look at those two-ended tools in the last pic! Ingenious.
Some more bartan from the same mountain village in the Tons Valley. Garhwal is where both the Ganga & Yamuna take birth, the Tons is the third great river that took birth there & believed to have - according to local myths, at one time, hit the plains and become the Saraswati.
Doing a thread on some really cool kitchens & vessels from around India. This beauty is a kitchen that’s about 200 years old, in a house sitting pretty in a mango orchards in Ratnagiri district, along the Konkan coast. Note the missing tiles in the roof doubling up as a chimney.
Once on a prosperous #trade route, now close to the Thar Desert, #Shekhawati region has almost slipped unnoticed in the #cultural landscape of #Rajasthan.The #havelis are painted in several registers #images r chosen carefully for their #location
It’s easy to be overwhelmed with the range of #visualmaterial: #floral #design #animals, #deities tales of #Ramayana #Mahabharata scenes from daily life Read as #curator #arthistorian @a_appy takes you in a time machine in the by lanes of #shekhawati varnikadesigns.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/tig…
