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Besides its natural beauty, the City of Lakes is renowned for the only-one-of-its kind plastering technique called 'Ghutai' which even today makes people believe that Udaipur has marble palaces.

Human’s quest for elegant home design dates back more than 5,000 years when some creative soul discovered that a paste of mud and water looked pretty awesome on the walls of their hut. Plaster has ...