Pushkar, for those who haven’t visited, is a place of great spiritual importance for Hindus and the lake, surrounded by 52 ghats (steps), is holy as they come. And with all this great spiritual importance comes many, many westerners decked out in the latest new age garb and competitively dreadlocked hairstyles. Mainly circulating in packs or hanging out en masse at one particular chai stall, from a distance they resembled extras from an episode of the, much-missed, Tony Robinson BCC kids series, Maid Marion and her Merry Men. There are even a few white sadhus who we imagined may have quit their jobs in IT or the civil service to pursue a more enlightened path and a life in orange robes. Call us cynics, but the words cliché and charlatan spring to mind. Spirituality is not for sale!
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