Colour, mood on last day of Puskhar
Pushkar: Horse trading may be a familiar jargon in politics but politicians on the last day of the Pushkar Fair, are trying out the more literal version of it. They are literally trading in horses.
Manohar Singh Ladnu, an MLA from Ladnu in Nagaur district has been living out of a tent for a week to sell his two baby horses for a neat Rs 87,000.
And after six visits to the fair with his Marwari horses, Singh now knows just what it takes to be a good horse trader.
“To see a good horse you have to see its height, the length of its neck, its ears and its mouth,” Ladnu says.
Meanwhile, camels still outnumber the horses at the world's largest camel fair that is bustling with traders, tourists and of course those who fetch great prices.
“There are thousands of camels here, that's amazing,” a tourist, Brian Baker said.
Rajasthani men display their long moustache at a moustache competition held at the Pushkar Fair.
Talking business, the traders say that telling a young camel from an old one takes a lot of homegrown desert expertise.
“You first see its teeth, the teeth tell the age of the camels and then the breed, whether its Jaisamleri or Barmeri something you can tell by the shape of the ears,” a camel buyer, Gulab Singh said.
So while the blond beauty Baliya (camel) is catching the fancy of all, the older and wiser camel traders say he's a bad idea because he's a fully-grown camel with eight teeth.
(With Inputs from Shweta Ganesh Kumar)
CNN-IBN
Manohar Singh Ladnu, an MLA from Ladnu in Nagaur district has been living out of a tent for a week to sell his two baby horses for a neat Rs 87,000.
And after six visits to the fair with his Marwari horses, Singh now knows just what it takes to be a good horse trader.
“To see a good horse you have to see its height, the length of its neck, its ears and its mouth,” Ladnu says.
Meanwhile, camels still outnumber the horses at the world's largest camel fair that is bustling with traders, tourists and of course those who fetch great prices.
“There are thousands of camels here, that's amazing,” a tourist, Brian Baker said.
Rajasthani men display their long moustache at a moustache competition held at the Pushkar Fair.
Talking business, the traders say that telling a young camel from an old one takes a lot of homegrown desert expertise.
“You first see its teeth, the teeth tell the age of the camels and then the breed, whether its Jaisamleri or Barmeri something you can tell by the shape of the ears,” a camel buyer, Gulab Singh said.
So while the blond beauty Baliya (camel) is catching the fancy of all, the older and wiser camel traders say he's a bad idea because he's a fully-grown camel with eight teeth.
(With Inputs from Shweta Ganesh Kumar)
CNN-IBN
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