Court Gate, Bikaner

the city market

Katla Market, the wedding shoppers paradise

Court Gate

Kalash Yatra

Kalash Yatra
on the last day of the Navratri festival



interestingly lot of women in Bikaner are wearing "salwar, kameez" they neighbour Punjab especially northward Ganganagar district.

2464 Rajasthan Sampark Kranti Express

Dilli Cantonment to Bikaner city Junction

the 2464 is actually two trains, after Jaipur one goes south to Jodhpur & the other north to Bikaner.

Bikaner was also one of the first states to get the railways,
the first line was laid from Bikaner to Ganganagar(?)
Bikaner was established by the Rao Bikaji late 15th century, scion of the Jodhpur royal family
thus the two cultures are similar

a lucky shot from the train
An antelope - Nilgai family
the mother and calf are light colored like sand, hardly visible
and the male is darker, with stripes on the legs

End March early April the harvesting is in full swing,
in the middle of the arid landscape it was a fulfilling sight to see stacks of golden harvest