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  Architecture of the Indian Desert  
  - By Kulbhushan & Minakshi Jain  
     
 
On a summer day, the temperature can rise up to 50º C, and the night temperature can drop down as low as 2º C - with chilly winds blowing. The vastness and the stillness of the desert can open your mind to that spirit which lingers on the distant horizon. At the same time you close yourself into space which are dark and fight the intense heat. You shrink your space from that endless vastness - to a mud cell, where you can almost touch the walls by simply extending your arms.

This duality of contradiction, perhaps, is the ruling deity of life in the desert. And if you are close to the people, in sharing - and in attempt to comprehend their life, you start oscillating between this duality and feel somewhat lost.
 
     
 
 
 
 

 

 
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