After returning from the rural round trip on Wednesday, second of April, another Vishakha's cluster-in-charge, Vikram, took me to see the Rajasthani Gangaur festival at the lake. 
This Rajasthani festival is celebrated for spring and good harvest but as I undertood, perhaps the biggest reason for the celebration of Gangaur is marriage. Women worship the mother goddess Gauri known better as Parvati for a good marriage: unmarried women worship her in order to get a good husband while the married women worhip her to have a pleasant marriage.
While the details of the celebration were left a bit uncertain to me it was clear that the festival was a big happening in Salumbar. Crowds were gathered by the lakeside, women were dressed brightly and people were cheerfully feeding the fish in the lake. At dusk people started to move towards the city most apparently to continue the festival there.
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