Hawa Palace, or “Palace of the Winds”

A Semester in India: Jaipur

Gregory Wischer
6 min readMar 4, 2019

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JAIPUR, Rajasthan— After a short 45 minute flight, our bus driver and his assistant from Delhi met us at the Jaipur airport. The desert landscape — short shrubs, rocky terrain, dry and dusty soil — became visible as we ventured to Sanganer, a village close to Jaipur.

Sanganer is known for its handmade paper industry and pottery, and first on our touring list was a handmade paper manufacturer. From the actual paper…

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Gregory Wischer

Georgetown University student. I lived in India from December 2018 to April 2019. As it has done to so many others, India stole my heart.