Beyond the Dunes

A must-have for the armchair traveller and perfect incentive for a weekend break in the desert the many-splendoured tourist mecca legendary for its romance royalty and undulating sand dunes is explored and examined in this sparkling account of the authors many rendezvous with rajasthan in her many avatars as starry-eyed tourist harried producer of documentary films lover of music and someone who realizes that there is much more to the desert province than picture-perfect palaces juhi sinha travels to forgotten towns and cities while also discovering unseen facets of familiar destinations what emerges is an affectionate portrait of a land and people who simultaneously live in the past and the present the author recounts in vivid anecdotes the highlights of her numerous journeys as she traverses the state on holidays and film shoots: from the murals of shekhawati to the ???sonar qila of jaisalmer from the luxurious heritage hotels that dot the map to the barren wastes near pokar