The sacred Mela festival of Pushkar, India

[Tripatini]

The entire idea of experiencing a folk festival is to see into the local culture and understand the tradition that the communities hold onto for generations. What is it that makes these festivals so unique? How do they manage to retain their age-old practices and beliefs despite all the modernization around them? These questions always intrigued me. So when I got a chance to cover Rajasthan's famous Pushkar Mela for a travel magazine (this year held November 15-23, in 2019 Nov. 4-12), I jumped at the proposition.

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