The city of Jaipur is an artist’s dream come true. The legendary Sawai Jai Singh II, a great ruler and astronomer, decided to shift his capital from hills of Amber to the plains and built it in accordance with the ‘Vastu Shastra’. Alongwith his Prime Minister Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, he built what is today known as a masterpiece of town planning by the architects and as a poem in aesthetics by the scholars.

He made Jaipur a city having every nook and corner uniformly and caringly done up - all the roads are perpendicular to each other and the streets are lined with fine buildings of uniform design.

Jaipur was built on a grid system. Our guide told us that the main streets (119’ wide) are intersected at right-angles by secondary streets (60’ wide), which were further criss-crossed by lanes(30’ wide) and bylanes(15’ wide).