Travel has taken on fresh urgency this December. The pace has gotten accelerated because of a rush in deadlines. Having just about recovered from home improvements in my Delhi apartment, last Sunday, I woke up at 4.30 am to take a train to Jaipur. I got in and was taken immediately to a rather incredible private space called The Gyan Museum, after which I headed on down to The Museum of Legacies, where an ex-colleague now works, and which opened formally just the day before. After dumping my bags in my hotel room, I rushed on over to the Nahargarh Fort to witness the inauguration of the sculpture park within the Mahavendra Palace, curated by my ex-colleague, Peter Nagy, and supported in large part by my other ex-colleague Aparajita Jain. It was rather incredible to witness what Peter had managed to do, with the government's collaboration. The idea of all of those amazing examples of Contemporary art so easily accessible to an immense visiting audience is amazing. As I traipsed through narrow corridors and up and down flights of stairs, I felt as though I was lost in a maze. The artworks appeared to have belonged to the palace, their existence there seemed almost seamless.

Illustration/Ravi Jadhav