Jaisalmer

In over four days, Aakash and his wife, Kaushal, detail how they travelled a roundtrip from Jaipur to Longewala on the Indo-Pak border, passing through Pushkar, Jodhpur and Jaisalmer, in their electric four-wheeler.

The Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls’ School in Rajasthan was conceptualised by CITTA founder Michael Daube, and designed by US-based architect Diana Kellogg

For more than 800 years, hundreds of families have lived inside this glorious desert citadel that's also a UNESCO world heritage site. Read on to find out why and how!

The Winter Tour, popularly known as Bharat Darshan, as the name suggests, is just that – a journey into India’s hinterlands and attachments with various governmental and private organisations to understand India better.

“I followed a very simple rule – study with the intention of clearing the examination."

Originally from the Sumaliyai village of Jaisalmer, Deshal had a rather humble start. His father Kushaldan Charan is a tea-stall owner and has faced financial problems for most of his life.

Thanks to IAS officer Kailash Chand Meena's people-centric initiatives, a much-needed transformation is slowly but steadily rolling in to the desert city of Jaisalmer.

Here’s what Deepak did to start with despite being a first-time farmer.

This engineer was once a farm labourer and belongs to a village where daughters are considered a curse. But his 6 daughters are excelling in various fields, right from politics to law enforcement, and a son is an engineer-turned-farmer with a turnover of crores.

Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, a German veterinarian who arrived in Rajasthan in 1990 for her PhD, has dedicated her life to the camels and the nomadic camel people of Rajasthan. Her social enterprise, Camel Charisma, has helped revive the unique camel culture of the region as well as the fortunes of the dwindling Raika community.