In the Rajasthan Assembly election of 2013, Narendra Kumar won from the Mandawa seat garnering 58637 votes and defeated Independent candidate Rita Choudhary who bagged 41519 votes. The candidate who ...

Bollywood’s steady arrival in Rajasthan’s Mandawa has created jobs, boosted tourism, and renewed attention to its heritage havelis. But beneath this growth lies a discreet network managing locations, ...

Away from fancy foreign locales, this small but culturally rich town in Rajasthan is attracting Bollywood filmmakers with its rustic essence, quaint surroundings, havelis exuding old-world charm and ...

The morning fog drifts through the streets of the village of Mandawa, engulfing the yellow and cream walls of the town’s now crumbling mansions. It’s early in northeast Rajasthan and camel carts laden ...

Just 170 km from Jaipur and about 260 km from Delhi lies an erstwhile little town full of colours and devoid of noise. Mandawa, a village in the Sekhawati region of Rajasthan, is bordered by the ...

When you think of Rajasthan, rarely go beyond the well-travelled route of Jaipur-Jodhpur-Jaisalmer. Sure, you’ll travel to Udaipur to namecheck the city and perhaps if you’re intrepid enough, you ...

From a sleepy town till the 1970s to a destination for discerning travellers, Mandawa owes it in full measure to the family of its former rulers. Randhir Vikram Singh, whose grandfather was Jagir, ...

In the past few decades, the painted havelis of Mandawa pitchforked the Shekhawati region to the world tourism map. But now if the local land mafia has its way, the centuries-old, frescoes-laden ...

The ruling Congress in Rajasthan on Thursday increased its tally in the state legislature by one after winning the assembly bypolls to Mandawa while MP Hanuman Beniwal's Rashtriya Loktantrik Party ...

Scores of junior artists draped in traditional Afghan robes with turbans wrapped around their heads take their positions at Chokhani Haveli, Mandawa (about 200 kilometres from Jaipur, Rajasthan). The ...