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    THE REAL JAIPUR

    Aug 21, 2018 3 minutes
    as told to Victoria Gomelsky
    PHOTOGRAPHS BY
    SARA HYLTON

    PEOPLE ARE A LITTLE confused when they meet me, because I have an Indian name but my accent is Italian. My father is from Jaipur, but I was born in Bologna, where my mother is from. In 2010, I moved to Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. There aren’t many half-Italian half-Indians in India; I think I know all of them by now.

    My family’s business, the Gem Palace, is located on Mirza Ismail

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