The Thar Desert, or Great Indian Desert, is an arid region of 208,000 square kilometers in northwestern India and eastern Pakistan; it is the largest desert in South Asia. Located between the Indus and Sutlej River valleys, much of the Thar Desert...

The Thar Desert (Hindi: थार मरुस्थल), also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a desert located in western India and southeastern Pakistan. It lies mostly in the Indian state of Rajasthan, and extends into the southern portion of...

The idea of owning a pair of noisome, noisy camels never much occurred to me, not even after my wife, Chloe, stumbled headlong over debris in a cobbled back street in Bikaner, India, nearly impaling herself on the directional arrow of a "Camel Market"...

Byline: ELINOR GOODMAN FOR a moment, I was the star attraction at the Nagaur camel fair in western Rajasthan. I sat astride the camel that had just come third in the best ridden category, and gazed through the dusty mist over what...