Jaipur, A Shopping Spree !!!

Jaipur is a city of vibrant colors and markets (bazaars) of Jaipur verify this fact. Jaipur's colorful markets offer a great deal of stuffs for a complete delight. How many times has it happened, you went out and couldn’t stop your self from spending on those beautiful hanging dupattas or bangles or may be the home décor stuff.  . While moving through the markets, you will come across the vivacious culture of this region. Jaipur is the perfect place to shop for Handicrafts, antiques, jewelry, gems, pottery, carpets, textiles, metalwork and leather ware. 

In Jaipur, there are many markets to present you the art and craft of Rajasthan. Kishanpol Bazar, Haldiyon Ka Rasta, Maniharon Ka Rasta, M.I. Road, Jauhari Bazar, Bapu Bazar, Nehru Bazaar are the main markets of Jaipur. Jauhari bazaar glitters with jewelries embedded with precious stones and gems. Moreover, one can also get ethnic saris and dress materials from this shopping market. Bapu Bazaar and Nehru Bazaar are ideal for shopping special shoes made out of camel skin. Others include textiles, local scents and perfumes besides bags and belts. M.I. Road market provides you with ethnic kundan jewelry, earthen potteries, brass articles and excellent wood articles. If you are looking for beautiful and cheap ornaments like colorful bangles, then step into the Tripolia Bazaar and Chaura Rasta market place.  One cannot define in words, the assortment of products, which these markets offer. This colorful city really gives an actual experience of delighting shopping. Shopping is really an electrifying activity in Jaipur. If you don't visit these markets of Jaipur, you will be definitely at amiss. A shopping spree in Jaipur's markets is an absolute fun. How many of you agree that there is no place other than Jaipur to give such satisfaction and delight in Shopping. From the most exclusive designer stores to market stalls, there is something for everyone.

Quit Smoking by helping Others! Sounds Backward but Really Works.

"Do as I say, not as I do." How many times have you heard that? 
How many times have you said that?

Everyone gives advice to others. It's easy to give advice,  whether people ask for it or not. Everyone has an opinion and their own ideas about how something should be done. I bet you've heard it from lots of people: "Quitting smoking is easy. Just  quit," or something equally as ineffective.

Advice from non-smokers on how to quit will probably not help you. In fact, you may find that advice from anyone, including other smokers who have quit successfully, doesn't help you. If you just aren't motivated by advice from others, try *helping * others, instead.

It may sound backwards, but how many times have you been able to see the "true" situation and solution in someone else's life, while they just could not see it? Perhaps, that's why giving advice to other people is so easy. As a disinterested third party, you can evaluate a situation or problem from a logical, 
unemotional (yes, I'm a man) and detached perspective. It's easy to see how to get out of the maze, when you're looking at the maze from the outside. Ever watch a rat trying to get out of a laboratory maze? You immediately see the way, but the rat must search blindly, because he can only see the walls around him.

The same can be true when you begin to help others quit smoking. By evaluating someone else's smoking, and their quest to quit, you can quickly see solutions to the other person's problem as well as yours J

Face off the Angry Sun with Chilled out Mocktails

 With Sun showing all his attitude and tantrums... give him back yours with cool thanda's !! Here are few easy to prepare mocktails to face off the Heat.

1. ORANGE TANG

Half Glass Orange Juice

Half Glass Orange Cold Drink

2 Spoon Vanilla Ice Cream

Little Crushed Ice

Churn in Mixer or you can mix them directly in a glass… Enjoy watching TV

2. MINTY COOL

4 Tbsp Sugar

I Tbsp Fresh Mint

2 Tbsp fresh Pineapple Juice

¾ glass crushed ice

Drinking Soda (optional)

Crush fresh mint with 1 tsp water and strain it in a mixer. Pup pineapple and mint juice in a glass. Make it sweet by adding ground sugar into pineapple juice. Add crushed ice and fill remaining glass with drinking soda. Drink it chilled with Mint leaves garnish.

3. MELON MELODY

1 Glass Melon Juice

A pinch of salt

A pinch of black pepper

½ Spoon ground sugar

½ spoon sugar syrup

Mix all the ingredients and enjoy it with crushed ice. Stick a rig of lemon and melon on top of the glass.

4. MANGO CASCADE

½ Glass thin Mango Juice

1 Tbsp orange Juice

1 Tbsp Pineapple Juice 

Take a glass First put pineapple juice, then orange juice followed by mango juice. If required you can add sugar syrup and drink it very chilled.

Hope you’ll Enjoy these amazing cool mock tails to beat the summer Heat.

Morning Walk at Central Park, Jaipur

One can’t actually think of anything that is more enjoyable & refreshing than a nice early morning walk when the city is just beginning to wake up.  We all know morning walk is good for us and that we should go for it but somehow it is easier to lay in bed. It took longer to actually get out of bed and do it but once you do, you felt simply astounding and motivated to keep it up in order to maintain the feeling of being so optimistic and alive.

And to actually keep you enthused, an excellent place for walk is must. Being a Jaipurite, one knows well about an exceptional place to walk that is Central Park, which is the most popular park among walkers & Joggers, located almost in the centre of the city. As a walker I was impressed with Central park’s beauty and size, making it a wonderful place to enjoy a bit of relaxation where people can spend hours in the enthralling and imposing atmosphere. The beautiful 4.5 km walkway of the park fills one with rejuvenating freshness escaping the din & chaos of the surrounding city. A wonderful designed park, having intensely manicured grass land. Its vast stretch of seasonal plants with their enigmatic aroma makes any visitor spellbound.

After an interesting strenuous walk, all those walkers who are coming to the park treat themselves & rehydrate with fresh & healthy juices like those of wheat grass, aloe Vera, bitter guard, guard tomato juices, feeling replenished again.

So get your butt up, wash your face, dress up, wear comfy shoes come & explore all that nature has to offer early in the morning.

Spend the weekEND with a blEND!!!

The most waited days of the week- Saturday and Sunday are on the calendars again. And if you are in Jaipur city… you have so many ‘options’ with you. Jaipur city has ‘everything’ for ‘everyone’. Big shopping malls, cafes, night clubs, amusement parks, resorts, multiplexes are to name a few.  

In the day time, you can go to have the sips of coffee with your friends. Bana’s coffee shop near Mr. Beans, C-Scheme serves the best coffee in Jaipur.  Or how about giving a crunchy start to your day??? If you do not mind a snack early in the morning you can get a Kachori near the panch batti circle or at the Rawat Misthan Bhandar.

If want to go out with family then nothings best than resorts.  Swapanlok, Kanchan Kesari, Nandan Resorts, Parilok are some of the many.

Those with the third eye can’t resist themselves from capturing the royal and elegant forts of Pink City. The beautiful pink city with its forts, gardens and markets is a best option for the photography lovers.

Hot beds of cultural activities: Jawahar Kala Kendra and Ravindra Manch. At Jawahar Kala Kendra there might be a mela on. You can visit the museums and the art galleries too. More often than not there are painting exhibitions and plays being put up during the course of the day. Another such venue is the Ravindra Manch and the open air theater there.

Numbers of malls are increasing in Jaipur like wild mushrooms day by day. City Pulse, Metropolitan Malls, Crystal Palm, Crystal Court, Silver Square, Mall 21, Hypercity, Vaibhav Mall, Triton are the names of the most visited ones.

And nothing can beat the multiplexes provided the currently showing movie is good. 

Buzzing Jaipur

There were time when the only reasons Jaipur was visited were Tourism and Shopping, Strictly in this order. As times changed so does the option. People realized there was more to Jaipur then mere heritage building and shops. The culinary delights, those historical hotels and even the cinema halls were enough excuses to plan a trip to Jaipur.

Now observe the Jaipur of last 45 days and you would wonder whether this is actually the place we all knew as Pink City. Cultural nights at Diggi Palace, Jaipur Heritage International Festival, Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur Marathon, Stone Mart and now Jaipur International Film Festival. Jaipur is simply buzzing with action.

It is now safe to say this is the next version of Jaipur. Ladies and Gentlemen you are now witnessing Jaipur 2.0 for sure. This city has safely left behind its reputation of heritage tourist city. This city takes Page 3 and glamour to next level. The glamour clubbed with heritage is a deadly combination. Jaipur beats every city in that department.

JLF has now comfortably brought Jaipur to the world literary map. The international flow of guests ensured that Literature Tourism is the next big thing in times to come. Looking at the sheer size of JLF this year, the next year looks even much bigger and brutal.

The hue and cry at Rambagh Palace drinks party, the camouflaged methods to serve liquor and conservative dresses are now rested totally now. Jaipur does every thing out in the open with social acceptance.

Stay tuned to Jaipur Beat to experience the actual Beats. 

Jaipur Literature Festival is place to be !!!

While going towards Diggi Palace from Sawai Ram Singh road when you are not allowed to take your car inside the lane, you immediately realize things have changed drastically at Jaipur Literature Festival. Being a regular visitor of all its previous editions, it was indeed a surprise to see large number of cars being parked at the make shift parking for JLF.

Jaipur Literature Festival today claims to be one of the leading Lit-fest in the country. As Tina Brown puts it “ the greatest literary show on earth” To see large of foreign writers/publishers at the festival clearly implies the market potential of JLF. New York times puts it as “In only five years, Jaipur has become official annual celebration of a vibrant and resurgent Indian and South Asian literary scene.”

A concept that started in one hall with just 14 guests in 2005 has now spread across entire Diggi Palace. It was heartening to see all the lawns/halls/tents and even make shift halls full with book lovers. The sizeable number of stalls of various products also indicates the commercial success of the festival.

Its not just the literature that’s in offering at JLF. The festival today has become a major Page 3 event that also contributes as source of fashion statement for its visitors. The rich aroma of seed coffee mixed with wine and brownie makes one really wonder whether we are actually in Jaipur.

JLF today allow the celebrities, authors, intellectuals and even the school kids to rub the shoulder with each other. The media and shutterbugs can be seen making the most out of a story at JLF.

After the full day of literature and wine, the JLF provides top class musical performance at night. For any music lovers its essential to witness these great musical performances.

 One thing is absolutely clear ; the JLF 2012 would be a much bigger and larger event. Is Diggi Palace prepared for it ??