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DESERT OF INDIA - MARUSTALI

An Italian man and a Swedish woman
from years sharing the life of the shepherds in Rajasthan

Jyoti & Nashi - The Key to India

"I was taken aback to find two people of obviously western origin, dressed as Rajasthani villagers, conversing in chaste Hindi with their host and with each other...
I was happy to know of their love for my country and saddened to realize that they are a small link to a vanishing way of life."
(Jetwings Magazine)

Jyoti and Nashi

They are looked upon with such amazement and admiration not only because they speak Hindi fluently and wear the local dress so naturally. But also because, unique in that, they share the reality with the villagers and are experiencing the Indian countryside life so totally so that they have become part of it.

They are at home not only with the shepherd castes Gurjar and Rabari/Raika but also with others, villagers and town dwellers alike in every part of the subcontinent. By seeing the Indian society from all different angles, they have acquired unique experience and knowledge. An inside which is difficult to grasp even by Indians themselves, who are often closed within their own restricted social communities.

JYOTI (Enzo Di Martino) has been living in India since 1980, when he was 19 years old.
After living close together with the village people of the far out countryside all these years, he can look back at a lifetime of following a passion; his own way of life.

ELIN-NASHI (Elin Bolmgren) went to India in 1996 with a desire to experience the reality behind any myth.
In Rajasthan she met Jyoti and together they went deeper into the relationship with the pastoral communities of the Gurjar and Rabari/Raika.

Jyoti and Nashi combine their living with the shepherds of Rajasthan, with their work of providing themselves as a doorway to rural Rajasthan’s culture and life.

They are appreciated by the media and recognized as ‘unique’ by Govt. of India Tourist Office and Dep. of Tourism, Art & Culture - Gov. of Rajasthan.
For their deep knowledge acquired over the years, they are commissioned as special guides and requested for lectures and special collaborations.

As part of their Project Marustali, with the support and sponsor of the tour operator Gränslösa Resor – Sweden, Nashi leads and guides 'Women Tours' to Rajasthan and leads the occasional workshops of Hindi course and traditional textile hanidcraft.

'Women Tour to Rajasthan' by

www.granslosaresor.se

Next tour: November 2008

"Thank you Nashi for an incredible trip. Without you
we could never had experienced all what we did. ..."
Lena Vegger
[free translation]

The Key to India
Jyoti and Nashi

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    LECTURES - India, Rajasthan, Village life, Shepherds, Women, Handicraft.

    HINDI COURSE - A course to work out with the Hindi language.

    ORIGINAL ITEM EXHIBITION - Costume, Jewellery, Handicraft.

    PHOTO EXHIBITION - Village life, Raika and Gurjar.

    EXCLUSIVE WORKSHOPS - Textile handicraft and thread-plaited jewellery.

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