Mangalore : The art of  Rajasthani handicrafts comes to Mangalore once a year, moves around the city holds exhibitions and lives on road sides. Several types of earthen lamps for ensuring Diwali season have appeared on city road side by now attracting passersby and car passengers to this well-designed lamps of decoration at night made out of machines.

There are varieties from one wick lamp to several sided wick lamps on show here, and the choice is yours if you alight and examine them. Like Tibetans from Bylukoppa bringing woollen materials in winter, the Rajasthani artisans bring their lamp –spilling machines and clay once a year to Indian towns and cities including Mangalore, so that citizens can make use of them with oil and wicks.

These lamps are quite cheap, selling at a dozen for Rs. 60/- only. There are different designs forms and weights, but the light is one.
The Marwari lamp sellers are coming here in their second year, because the sales are encouraging. They are around MCC, M.G. Road, Lalbagh, even on way to chilimbi. Rains and sunshine take their toll but the business goes on. They change places when they understand different areas provide them with sales and more cash for their labour.

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