ila with piyush toi photoila arun and piyush pandey confess that they are full of rajasthan the singerperformer and her ad guru brother claim that this state has moulded them and given them their space under the sunas they say unanimously we have kept our heritage and roots intact we know it beyond the superficial the camels and pushkar we have used our experiences of playing in the mud here in our professional and personal lives we live rajasthan everydayremembering their salad days in the state piyush says my father used to work with a cooperative movement and i have travelled all around rajasthan with him i was exposed to the geography and the way people lived happily even in adversities even when there was no water or little food crop people knew the art of eating roti with mirchi all this has taught me to be real in life plus there is so much art and culture here you just imbibe it my life and work have been about learning to be happy if i send a foreign designer here hell probably shoot the bangles haldi etc but it is important to know the nuances to understand how people operate here says piyushila adds i did not go to any art school or an institute instead i learnt everything in rajasthan there was so much even in the air what has worked for me is my interactions with both the sides the common man and the royalty all the women who worked in our home were my friends and that enriched my life there was a particular woman who used to sing to me on the terrace she brought a lot of sur into my life then our servant raghunath used to sing in a high pitch and would suddenly drop his voice low they have taught me my musical notes in fact it was the silver that my maid ramnath meena used to give me to wear on every teej that has earned me so much respect they call me the ambassador of silver today when i wear silver i dont wear it thinking itll become an inthing for the others i wear it because i have always worn it ive grown up and lived with it my music is my nostalgia my childhoodbut how do the siblings see rajasthan changing rajasthan is ever changing and never changing in other words it is beautifully changing in terms of modernity making its way without influencing the old world charm it is heartening to see young local lads speaking fluent rajasthani and breaking into italian or french on seeing a tourist i have never seen so much greenery in jaipur as i can now see in central park weve come a long way and the journey is still on shares piyushila adds i keep looking for the khus ki tatti i so detested as a kid we were supposed to stay inside our house in the excessive heat