Grazing for souvenirs is second nature to me. But hoarding pretty things that are absolutely useless (or squirrelling away hotel toiletries, in a moment of great souvenir crisis) has only led to domestic strife and dust mites so far. And yet, when two blue cows make cow eyes at you&mdashsimultaneously&mdashyou&rsquod have to be pretty hard-hearted not to give in. So I did. Somewhere in the dusty lanes outside the temple at Nathdwara &mdash 50km northeast of Udaipur, past battle-scarred Haldighati and the Eklingji temple&mdashin a row of shops that sell toys and key chains and Pichwai paintings of the local deity Sreenathji, I picked up my minakari cows for Rs 400.
