Ganesh Saili
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Today, Landour is considered part of Mussoorie, but in the early days it was another hill station - in other words it was the Cantonment and Military area where Captain Young set up the Convalescent Depot. In favt, the centre of Mussoorie was in Library and Happy Valley. Over the years, these two ends converged anf joined up at kulri creating the old promenada, the mall.
However, Landour has kept its unique character - it has escaped the attention of the builders ...
Mauger Fitzhugh Monk was born in the British channel island of Guernsey. Forced to leave England after a financial scandal, he departed for India, where, under an assumed name, he enlisted as a gunner, in the East India Company’s 4th Battalion of Artillery. He served there as a soldier but soon made his way up to the Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie, which had then only recently been established, and took up work there; initially as a teacher. He ...
However the big push in the brewery business really began in 1876, when everyone suddenly acclaimed a much improved brew. The beer was retested and retested until the diminishing level of the barrel revealed the perfectly brewed remains of a human being. This and many others such tales make up the fascinating story of Mussoorie, most glamorous of the hill stations established during the British Raj. A Chronicle of Mussoorie, past the present, it is an ...
section one. Mussoorie medley : tales of yesteryear section two. From the archives. section three. Mussoorie memoirs : a picture diary.
As delicious today as they were 60 years ago... and well worth the effort that's put into recreating them'. Landour, circa 1900s: The missionary impetus did not remain confined to schools. The intermingling of European. American and Indian flavours created a unique Anglo-Indian aroma which spread all over the hills. Compiled into The Landour Cookbook, they have left the taste of Mrs. Menzie's Cuban Stew, M. McGee's Corn Tamale, E.W. Ross' Blushing Apples, Larry ...
Born out of an Emperor's obsession, the magnificent Taj stands today as one of the wonders of the world. Completely shattered by the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, the fifth Moghul Emperor, Shah Jahan, took to building a memorial which would not be easily erased from the memory of mankind. Named after the empress Mumtaz Mahal, the 'chosen one of the palace,' the Taj took fourteen years to build, using the labour of twenty thousand workers, and ...
Ruskin, Our Enduring Bond is the story of a charmed childhood spent in 'old towering palaces! Full of mystery and romance.' At the age of ten, Ruskin Bond lost his father, but by then Ruskin's father had already passed on to his little son, his love for old friends, old times, old manners, old books and old music. Ruskin was only seventeen when he first started writing to be published in 1951. Even as his first novel The Room on the Roof was being published in ...
This book in your hands, ravenous reader, is not just another run-of-the-mill Raj Cookbook. With a short text and 24 illustrations, this epicure's delight is the concoction of American missionary expatriates, itinerant staff Woodstock International School. In 1930s, the Landour community Center was a beehive of activity. It was where the Presbyterians caught up with the Mennonites, the Methodists with the Pentecostals, the Baptists with the Episcopalians and it ...