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Criss-Crossing Around Chindi | Raaja Bhasin | India, Himachal Pradesh, Shimla

If one can get past the initial shock and irritation, there is nothing as wonderful as having an eccentric for a guide

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On the Road to the Border | Raaja Bhasin | India, Himachal Pradesh, Shimla

A full century after these words were written one can still draw on what Kipling wrote in ‘Kim’, “We came and came by such and such a way! … These are the true Hills! … Never were such hills!”

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Rudyard Kipling's Shimla | Raaja Bhasin | India, Himachal Pradesh, Shimla

Many sites that Kipling carried into the bitter-sweet pages of Plain Tales from the Hills and those casually flicked into Kim live on in today’s Shimla

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Same Ol' India | Ben Mallalieu | India, Himachal Pradesh, Shimla

To most Indians, the British “Raj” is old history, and they come to Simla for the same reasons that the British did: the beauty of the scenery and the gentleness of the climate

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Spires across the Hills | Raaja Bhasin | India, Himachal Pradesh, Shimla

Christ Church tells the story of a part of the town’s rich history – and pews still mark the seats of the Viceroy, the Commander-in-Chief and the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab

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Surrey in Tibet | William Dalrymple | India, Himachal Pradesh, Shimla

Anarchy is to the porters of New Delhi station what order is to the clerks of the Credit Suisse, Geneva: without it they would be lost…

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The Story of the Kalka Shimla Railway Line | Raaja Bhasin | India, Himachal Pradesh, Shimla

Bhalku claimed that the path the line should take had been revealed to him by his devta, a deity who communicated with him through his lice. Trailed by the engineers, he would march with a tall staff over the hills...

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