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Inside Jaipur Royal family’s Teej celebrations: Padmanabh Singh & Gauravi Kumari take part in age-old rituals, music and grand procession

Jaipur royal family observed the annual Teej festival with traditional rituals and vibrant celebrations. Women wore colourful leheriya outfits and participated in folk music and prayers. Gauravi Kumari performed rituals dedicated to Teej Mata as part of the festivities. Padmanabh Singh led the historic Teej procession through the city streets.…

The Economic Times · Aug 18

What Lakme Fashion Week Actually Means for How Everyday Indian Women Are Dressing

The runway is not a wardrobeYou watch the models walk. The silhouettes are architectural, the fabrics are things you'd need to Google, and the styling involves a kind of studied dishevelment that takes a team of people to achieve. Lakme Fashion Week is, in this sense, a performance. A very…

Times Life · Aug 17

Emergency Fund Math: How to Save 6 Months of Expenses on a ₹40,000 Monthly Salary

Why Six Months, Not Three, and Not TwelveThe three-month rule came from an era of stable government jobs and joint families that absorbed financial shocks. Neither condition is as reliable as it once was. A 2023 report by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy found that urban salaried employment remains…

Times Life · Aug 12

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Why Oxidised Silver Jewellery Became the Urban Indian Woman's Quiet Style Statement

The jewellery that stopped trying to impressYou have seen her. On the Metro in Delhi, in a Bengaluru café nursing her second coffee, walking through a Colaba market on a Saturday with no particular urgency. She is wearing oxidised silver, a pair of jhumkas gone dark at the filigree, a…

Times Life · Aug 12

Kutch Is Where the Rann Ends and the Artisans Begin: Crafts That Belong to No Other Place

The Rann Is the Threshold, Not the DestinationYou arrive at the white desert and think you have arrived at Kutch. The Rann of Kutch is enormous and genuinely strange, a seasonal salt marsh that turns solid and blinding white in winter, stretching toward Pakistan in one direction and the Arabian…

Times Life · Aug 12

88-year-old Delhi man loses mobile, then Rs 70,000 vanishes from his bank account: How this fraud led to a pan-India cyberfraud gang that uses victims' stolen phones to steal money

An 88-year-old Delhi man's stolen phone and Rs 70,000 in unauthorised transactions led Delhi Police to a pan-India cyberfraud syndicate operating across three states. Nine people have been arrested from Jaipur, Ghaziabad, and Meerut, with police recovering 52 stolen phones, 145 SIM cards, and 70 debit cards from the network.

The Economic Times · Aug 11

Indian Jewellery Pieces Worth Owning Before Artisan Craftsmanship Disappears Forever

The Man Who Makes It Is Sixty-ThreeThe karigar who makes Odisha's finest filigree silver earrings is sixty-three years old, and his son drives an auto-rickshaw. This is not a tragedy in the making. It is already made. Across India's jewellery-making clusters, Karimnagar in Telangana for silver filigree, Jaipur for meenakari,…

Times Life · Aug 11

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Why Choosing Kundan Jewellery Has Always Been a Political Statement in Indian Fashion

The Weight It Carries Before You Put It OnKundan arrived in Indian jewellery not as decoration but as court language. The Mughal ateliers in Agra and the Rajput goldsmiths of Jaipur and Bikaner refined it over centuries into something that communicated rank, alliance, and aesthetic allegiance simultaneously. The technique, setting…

Times Life · Aug 11

The Hair Clip Is Back: How Gen Z Indian Women Are Reclaiming Traditional Adornment

What your grandmother clipped into her braid without thinkingThe gold-toned hairclip your nani kept in a steel box beside her sindoor wasn't decorative in any self-conscious way. It was functional. It held a plait, kept hair off a face bent over a chulha, marked the end of the morning routine.…

Times Life · Aug 10

Why the Maang Tikka Is the One Indian Jewellery Piece That Belongs to Both Tradition and Modern Identity

The Forehead Was Never Just a ForeheadBefore it was fashion, before it was bridal, before a jeweller in Jaipur or Hyderabad ever set a polki stone into a chain, the centre of the forehead already meant something. In classical Indian thought, the point between the brows, the ajna, is where…

Times Life · Aug 10

Five Salt Lakes and Flats Across India That Rival Sambhar and Rann of Kutch for Travel

Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan, India's Largest Inland Saline LakeMost Indian travellers who know Sambhar know it only as a name on a map between Jaipur and Ajmer. The lake itself, roughly 230 square kilometres at full spread, sits in a shallow basin that has been harvested for salt since at least…

Times Life · Aug 8

Heavy rain in Rajasthan; wet spell to continue till Aug 10

Rajasthan experienced heavy rainfall on Friday as the southwest monsoon reactivated. The India Meteorological Department forecasts continued intense showers across the state for several days. Two weather systems are expected to intensify, bringing more rain to eastern regions. Moderate to heavy rainfall is predicted for Bharatpur, Jaipur, Kota, Ajmer, and…

The Economic Times · Aug 7

India's Rock Python: Ecology, Mythology, and a Habitat That Is Rapidly Disappearing

The Animal ItselfPython molurus can reach six metres in length and weigh over 90 kilograms. That makes it the largest snake in India and, by mass, one of the four heaviest snakes on Earth, behind only the reticulated python, the green anaconda, and the Burmese python. Adults are unmistakable: a…

Times Life · Aug 7

Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan's Salt Wilderness Where Flamingo Season Makes Reality Feel Optional

The lake that shouldn't exist hereSambhar is the largest inland salt lake in India, spread across roughly 230 square kilometres in the Nagaur and Jaipur districts of Rajasthan, and it sits in a place that geologically has no business being a lake at all. The Aravalli ranges funnel seasonal runoff…

Times Life · Aug 7

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Times Life · Aug 6

Chand Baori: The Rajasthan Stepwell With 3,500 Steps That Rewrites Medieval India's Architecture Story

The geometry that stops you coldYou reach the edge and look down, and your brain does something it rarely does in the presence of a building: it refuses to process the scale. Chand Baori at Abhaneri, about 95 kilometres from Jaipur, drops thirteen storeys straight into the Rajasthan earth. The…

Times Life · Aug 6

Seven Ancient Stepwells Across India That Rival Adalaj in Architecture and Heritage

Rani ki Vav, Patan, GujaratRani ki Vav has 800 sculpted panels descending seven storeys into the earth, and UNESCO put it on the World Heritage list in 2014 for exactly that reason. Queen Udayamati commissioned it in the 11th century as a memorial to her husband, King Bhimdev I of…

The Economic Times · Aug 5

8th Pay Commission schedules Jaipur meetings with employee and pensioner bodies; key dates, deadline to apply

8th Pay Commission: The 8th Pay Commission will hold meetings in Jaipur. These discussions involve central government employees and their representative bodies. Similar meetings have been scheduled for New Delhi, Chandigarh, Chennai, and Puducherry. Stakeholders must submit requests for appointments through a specific online portal.

Times Life · Aug 2

How Switching From Hard Water to Filtered Water Visibly Changes Indian Skin and Scalp

What Hard Water Is Actually Doing to Your SkinHard water carries high concentrations of dissolved calcium and magnesium. In Indian cities like Delhi, Bengaluru, and Jaipur, municipal water hardness regularly exceeds 300 mg/L, well above the Bureau of Indian Standards' acceptable limit of 200 mg/L for drinking water. On skin,…

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The Economic Times · Jul 28

India's salary hotspots are no longer just the biggest metros

India's salary growth is becoming more geographically balanced, with Tier-2 cities such as Ahmedabad, Visakhapatnam, Nagpur and Jaipur recording projected increments close to leading metros, according to TeamLease's FY2026-27 Jobs and Salaries Primer. The shift reflects manufacturing expansion, industrial corridors and rising enterprise investments beyond traditional technology hubs.

MyLifeXP · Jul 23

Why Ghewar Is Made Only in Sawan?

Making Ghewar is not a small process or an easy one. It takes the right time, weather, skills and patience to make it. Batter of Ghewar is poured little by little into hot ghee. As each layer cooks, it creates tiny holes that give Ghewar a little crispy and crispy…

The Economic Times · Jul 21

After Supreme Court rap, JDA swings into action, serves notices to illegal commercial units in Jaipur

Weeks after the Supreme Court pulled up civic authorities across the country over rampant misuse of residential properties for commercial purposes, the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has initiated enforcement action by issuing notices to alleged illegal commercial establishments operating on residential land in the city.

Times Life · Jul 21

India's Luxury Resort Districts: Which Ones Are Worth the Price and Which Are Overrated

Coorg, Karnataka: Worth Every RupeeCoorg earns its premium pricing because the district itself does the work. The coffee estates are real, the mist arrives without being arranged, and the better resorts, Orange County and Amanvana among them, are built into the terrain rather than imposed on it. A stay at…

Times Life · Jul 20

6 Indian Destinations That Are Genuinely Easy and Rewarding for Senior Travellers

Mysuru: The City That Does the Work for YouMysuru is the most underrated senior-friendly destination in India, and the reason is simple: almost everything worth seeing sits within a 5-km radius of the city centre. The Mysore Palace, Devaraja Market, Chamundi Hill (accessible by car to within 50 steps of…

Times Life · Jul 18

How Kites and Eagles Have Mastered Urban India's Shifting Food Chain Without Human Help

The thermal highway above hot concreteBlack kites (Milvus migrans) are among the most studied urban raptors on the planet, and India holds some of their densest city populations. A 2014 study published in PLOS ONE by researchers including Julien Martin found that black kites in cities exploit the same thermals…

Times Life · Jul 16

Why Hair Colouring for Indian Hair Demands a Different Approach Than Global Brands Offer

The melanin problem no international brand addressesIndian hair carries a higher concentration of eumelanin, the pigment responsible for black and dark brown tones, than the hair types most global colouring formulas are calibrated for. This matters because lifting dark pigment requires more developer strength or longer processing time, and most…

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