India is the land of fairs and festivals. Post-globalization, however, malls have substituted melas (fairs). Parties and feasts have become so common that several festivals have lost their sheen for the middle-class Indian. No doubt, there are festivals that we have become more aware of, thanks to their being beamed on our TV screens. But these are few and far between.
This book is an attempt to make us aware of India’s rich cultural heritage of fairs and ...