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Jaipur royal Padmanabh Singh launches The Sarvato, inviting you into the City Palace for dinner

Jaipur royal Padmanabh Singh launches The Sarvato, inviting you into the City Palace for dinner

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I enter Jaipur’s City Palace to the sound of drums, weaving past a bejewelled foot-stamping, ear-flapping elephant. There is a wedding in progress outside and the streets are festive with light. Earlier that morning, I had bought a ticket and jostled through gawking crowds to admire the stately buildings, crafted in pink sandstone and marble. […]

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Jaipur Centre for Art opens with a black-tie evening and the exhibition, A New Way of Seeing

Jaipur Centre for Art opens with a black-tie evening and the exhibition, A New Way of Seeing

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The City Palace is a sprawling complex of grand courtyards, domed pavilions, and intricately designed facades crafted from pink sandstone and marble. Built in 1727, when Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II created Jaipur as the capital of his kingdom, it has of late been shedding its image as a tourist attraction and reclaiming its practice […]

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