Had we been sucked into a wormhole in space and spat out in Europe? No, we were in Sidhpur, a sleepy unsung town in the roiling mercantile state of Gujarat where we felt teleported to an era, once loved and lost.
Strolling around Sidhpur, we stumbled on a line-up of gorgeous ornate mansions, in neighbourhoods called Bohravads, daubed in Mediterranean colours — ochre, green, blue, salmon-pink, beige… This dusty little town could well have been a movie set that a director and film crew had carelessly forgotten to dismantle. The town had its moments in the sun 200 years ago and then slipped into a sea of yesteryears, where it still seems to flounder.
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