Jaipur is affectionately known as the Pink City, named for when the facades were painted in the last century for the Prince of Monaco’s visit. It is a spectacular place to visit in photographs, and in person, it is simply stunning. The stuff that dreams are made on, Jaipur is a brilliant city, with a city plan based on a cosmic principle and shaped like a mandala, and even thinking about Jaipur can lead to lovely musings. Planning a visit here is a fantastic pleasure, and when you start planning for Jaipur, hotels seem to be everywhere here. We’ve taken the guesswork out of that, and offer you the best of the selection, so that you can enjoy a magnificent luxury hotel while still keeping to your budget. Our hotels offer a magnificent combination of tradition and innovation, so that you can enjoy being spoiled and still be very well-connected to the world at large.
Jaipur is a gorgeous experience in discovery, where you can see old world temples or splendid contemporary shopping excursions, all in the same day. Jaipur is simply a gorgeous city, and there seems to be a sensibility for the art of everyday detail everywhere you look. The famous Rajasthan Biennale is held here, featuring some of the most exciting art in India, and there are young artists who are beginning to make forays into the international arena. One of these, and surely a face to watch, is Yogesh Verma, who recently completed his BVA at the Rajasthan School of Art in Jaipur.
He has been showing his work all over the state, and has a very bright future ahead of him. The young artist works in painting abstractions of the human form, and general abstracts that speak to a host of fears and desires. The work is bold, extremely bold, and he has a sensibility that is very loose and free, but still somehow remarkably restrained, so that the hidden impulses beneath the drip-paint figures plays a profound role in the work, and the effect is really stunning. He’s making good connections in the Indian Art community, and will be an exciting name to look for in the years to come.
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