Aura of India
Aura of India
A journal in English
Every place has a story. Every story has an aura.
A free journal about India for readers in India and abroad: temples, cities, food, festivals, crafts, markets and monuments. Each story uses real photographs, checks fees and timings against official sources, and says when it was last verified. The full journal lives on blog.auraofindia.com.
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Pattachitra of Odisha: Raghurajpur Village and How to Buy It
A village where every veranda is a studio and every wall tells a story.
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Photo: Sumit Surai, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped), via Wikimedia Commons
A travel guide for every state and union territory — where to go, when to visit, and how to reach. Short names below; open any for the full guide.
Every piece is written for the journal first, then cut down for Instagram and YouTube. The photograph is real — from Wikimedia Commons under a free licence, cropped for the page, and credited under the picture. Fees, opening hours and festival dates are checked against official sources; when a figure cannot be confirmed, the story says so. Each post records when it was last verified. Nothing here is AI photography or invented first-hand travel.
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