Desert Woman Portrait India Rajasthan

Desert Woman Portrait India Rajasthan. ... more

by Sue Jacobi

Title

Desert Woman Portrait India Rajasthan

Artist

Sue Jacobi

Medium

Photograph - Fine Art Photography - Digital Art

Description

Desert Woman Portrait India Rajasthan.
This was a moment, a candid portrait, captured during the magical sunset twilight in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, near Jaisalmer, in India. A woman chats with a friend, possibly exchanging notes about the day�s events. It is peaceful and quiet. There are camels, camel-minders and dune buggies around, on the sand dunes. The magical sunset lasts but a while, and it is gone as quickly as it started.
In India, the Rajasthan State government recently declared the camel as the State animal. The decision, taken at a Cabinet meeting held in Bikaner, aims to check the dwindling number of camels.
The State government is also in the process of drafting a new law to prevent slaughter, illegal trade and transportation and has announced that it will include camel milk in its food security programme. Camels provide livelihood to a large number of people in rural Rajasthan.
The camel, also known as the "ship of the desert" is slaughtered for its meat, killed as part of sacrifice in several districts of Rajasthan and illegally transported to the neighboring states for slaughter which had resulted in its numbers falling sharply. Fast disappearing grazing areas has also added to a severe food crisis for camels.
According to the Livestock Census data, there were 668,000 camels in 1997 which were reduced to 498,000 camels in 2003, amounting to a 25 per cent decrease in five years. By 2008, the number had decreased further by 13.5 per cent to 430426. The only district in which camel numbers increased during the period from 2003-2008 was Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, India.
The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert or Marusthali (Land of the dead), is a large, arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. With an area of more than 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi), it is the world's 9th largest subtropical desert.
The Thar desert is bounded by the Sutlej River to the north, the Aravalli Range to the east, salt marsh to the south, and the Indus River to the west. It lies mostly in the Indian state of Rajasthan and extends into the southern portion of Haryana and into northern Gujarat. The Desert National Park, Jaisalmer has a collection of fossils of animals and plants of 180 million years old.
From Indian Mythology : The Indian epics describe this region as Lavanasagara (Salt-ocean). The Ramayana mentions Lavanasagara (the Salt-ocean) when Rama goes to attack Lanka with the army of vanaras. Rama uses his agneyashtra-amogha to dry up the sea named drumakulya situated on north of Lavanasagara. A fresh water source named Pushkar surrounded by Marukantara was created.
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February 1st, 2015