Corona fear robs Raj's Gangaur Festival of all fervour

The renowned festival of Gangaur passed off silently as women kept themselves indoors within their houses and celebrated the festival via video conferencing due to nationwide lockdown because of coronavirus outbreak. Every year they used to sing songs together under one roof and listen to the story associated with this festival, but this year they celebrated the festival digitally on Skype, WhatsApp and Google chat. In fact, this is for the first time in the nearly three century old history of Jaipur that the Gangaur Festival failed to make a mark with no royal procession being taken out as has been a ritual each year since 1828.

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