Going to seed

There is a legend about Mehrangarh, the massive fortress with wide battlements and delicately decorated palaces that rises atop a desert hill in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. When Rao Jodha of Marwar began building this citadel in 1459, it is said, a hermit found himself displaced. In his anger the hermit cursed Rao Jodha’s kingdom to suffer drought. That ancient curse seemed to have lifted...

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