Mandawa

An Old Trip. Old Memories.

Mandawa. Before Global Warming.

I want to go back in time to a trip to Mandawa, north of Jaipur. Mandawa is near Churu, and when we crossed Churu, someone mentioned the peak summer temperatures of the place. Fifty degrees Celsius, they said, and we shivered at the imagery of the blazing summer heat baking the hapless citizens of the town. Those days, the…