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Jaipur, April 21, 2013: This time my Jaipur visit was very hectic indeed. Yesterday, Saturday April 20, I drove down to Sujangarh in Churu district had lunch and returned to Jaipur in the evening.

I undertook 400 kms of journey by road in a single day. Not just Saturday, even today, though a Sunday, I am very busy. I met with the Rajasthan Forum members over lunch and then attended the meeting of the Forum.

After that, I inaugurated an art exhibition of paintings by Mr Rameshwar Singh at the Welcome Art Gallery, ITC Rajputana.

Immediately after the exhibition there is the next Desert Souls talk show series event being organized by Rajasthan Forum. This time, veteran theatre personality, Sartaj Narayan Mathur is the guest.

Dr Archana Srivastava, herself a theatre person and the Head of the Dept of Dramatics, University of Rajasthan, would conducted the show.  Shri Mathur is expected to share 60 wonderful and eventful years of his theatrical career during the talk show.

The earlier editions of Desert Souls have been very successful and has featured Urdu poet, Shri Ikram Rajasthani, theatre artist Nandlal Sharma, Kathak Guru Pt Giridhari Maharaj, artist Suresh Sharma and writer Nand Kishore Acharya.

Desert Souls is joint initiative of Rajasthan Forum and the ITC Rajputana Hotel, supported by Shree Cement. The Desert Souls series showcases talents from diverse fields who represent the true soul and rich heritage of the desert state of Rajasthan.

Later in the evening, I shall be hosting a dinner at the ITC Rajputana, Jaipur, to meet and greet Kiran Mehra Kerpelman, Director of United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) for India and Bhutan. She is in Jaipur on my invitation.
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