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The enormous city of U Belly bristled with street dogs, stray cows and mosquitoes, but its inhabitants were nevertheless a contented people. Governed by a City Council of five wise men, or elders (of whom, the eldest had been on his death-bed for thirty years), and cordoned off from the rest of the world, U Bellians had nothing to complain about, and everything they could dream of: food, work, houses, schools, hospitals, roads, parks, certitudes. Only the ...
Imagine a remote valley high up in the Western Indian Himalaya, abutting Tibet. A valley that at various times in history has been part of the Tibetan realm. A valley one hundred per cent Buddhist. A valley abounding in fossils of the inhabitants of the prehistoric Tethys Sea. A valley with a stunning moonscape. A valley that is a world within a world. A world they call Spiti. Says Kim, the eponymous protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's classic, "...Surely the ...