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Where rural meets urban

A day at Hinterland Ecostays Your brown girl has often talked about growing up in a small town in India. What your brown girl hasn’t spoken yet is about her stints with rural India. Yep! Growing up, my summer vacations were only about going to our village where my dad’s family lived (still do). It […]

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Gujarat

Rann Utsav

“Even in the most barren desert, one would still feel one’s heart beating” -Marty Rubin A mélange of colours and culture set in the distant background of the massive white desert, better known as the Rann of Kutch or Safed Rann (Safed is Hindi for White). This festival celebrated every year in the village of Dhordo in […]

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Gujarat

Rann of Kutch

vast, empty, white, mysterious! And like Amitabh Bachchan ji said “Kutch nahi dekha toh kuch nai dekha” Kutch means “that which intermittently becomes wet and dry”. Geographically, Kutch is a district in the state of Gujarat and is best known for the Rann which forms the northern perimeter of the district and also shares a […]