The Haunted Simla Road

MANY YEARS AGO the bells of St Crispins woke up the people of Mashobra on Sunday mornings. We threw open our windows and let the chimes flood into the room along with the sunlight. We watched the English folk coming from the hotels and houses for service. It was the only day in the week [...]

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In the heart of apple country!

source: http://10yearitch.com/ Savi About 18kms northeast of Narkanda is the little village of Thanedar. Situated just off the old Hindustan-Tibet road, it is where the apple-farming revolution, if you can call it that, originated. The British had introduced cooking apples in India in the late 19th century but these were not sweet and therefore not [...]

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At apple pad, another revolution

www.indianexpress.com Hem Lata Verma Posted: Fri May 21 2010, 02:13 hrs KOTGARH (SHIMLA): Vijay Stokes, a retired Mechanical Engineer Professor of IIT Kanpur, at his orchard in Kotgarh, Shimla. Nearly a century after it brought in an unprecedented boom in apple cultivation in Himachal Pradesh, Kotgarh in Shimla district is set to usher in yet [...]

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Tani Jubbar Fair 2010

Saurav Bhaik says – It was a decent crowd at tanajubal this year… felt good to see people with the very same enthusiasm as it was few years back… hope to see u all at thanedhar ka mela!!

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