The Landscape certainly does not inspire. As it stretches for miles and countless miles all around, it is apparent that the one thing the Desert does not have is color. The sands drift a bleached blond, and the scrub cover is straggly, and when there are flowers, they are a dull shade of white or yellow, with the exception of the flame of the forest that blooms hidden in the forests of the Aravallis.

Yet, the Thar, which it all of Rajasthan, is Known as the most colorful Desert in the world. Festivals and celebrations, music and dance punctuate its barrenness, turning the land into a fertile basin of color and creativity.

What is it that has inspired these people to live their life with such verve and passion? Was it an attempt to overcome the harshness of the Desert conditions that led them to celebrate in such overwhelming style? Did the fact that life itself was unpredictable lend an edge of gaiety to the manner in which they lived> or was it all these?

In Rajasthan these are mere questions, for only color is a reality, as is the zest with which the people make their journey through life. If festivals are a source for lavish enjoyment, so are marriages. Pageantry is a part of the daily ritual, manifest in the way the men and women dress, resplendent in their raiment’s where the color never seems to cease. Silver and Gold Glint at elbow and ankle, jewels twinkle at nose and neck; veils and turbans use bold, passionate colors to liven up the landscape; there is a sense of both flamboyance and coquetry. Men, no less ritually adorned that women, can vie with their women on the amount of Jewellery they sport.

Each region in Rajasthan has its own form of folk entertainment; the tribal’s contributing no little measure to it. In most parts, entertainment is provided by professional communities of entertainers whose livelihood depends on it and who have evolved their respective arts into fine forms.

Certainly the patronage of the royal families helped to support the entertainers, but there was also the Rajasthani ideal of the person who was equally appreciative of the arts as of sword ship. According to a popular couplet, only a man sensitive to music, landscape, appearance, wine, poetry and paintings was worthy being called a true aristocrat.