by Shimla Walks | Feb 27, 2020 | General News, The Life in the Hills, Uncategorized
And now he was here in Shimla to inspect the new retreat of the British officers. One morning when the Khansama had set up his table outside in the lawns of Kennedy’s House, Lord, looking towards the Himalayan ranges said, ‘The Emperor of China and I govern half of...
by Shimla Walks | May 24, 2019 | General News, Uncategorized
That was the time when the Kingdome of Nepal, with the help of his Gurkha troops, was trying to invade the British Boundaries to their east and Tibetan boundaries to their North. British were keen to open the trade with Tibet and demanded the route through Nepal. The...
by Shimla Walks | May 18, 2019 | Himalayan Trips, HIstory, Uncategorized
‘Taking everything into consideration we may, therefore, decide that when the Blaini roup was being deposited, the spot now occupied by Simla was a sea on whose surface icebergs floated, melted and dropped the stone which they carried on their surface, or imbedded in...
by Shimla Walks | Jan 5, 2019 | Himalayan Trips, HIstory, Nature Walks, News and Deals, Shimla with Sumit, Stories, The Life in the Hills, The Life in the Hills, Uncategorized
That reminded me of the famous dialogue of a Bollywood movie, ‘Main Fenkey Huye Paise Nahi Uthata’ OR ‘If you want to make my payment place the money in my hand’. But here in this village, it does not work. They forbid touching me and the shopkeeper in the village...
by Shimla Walks | Aug 15, 2018 | Shimla with Sumit, Stories, Uncategorized
The biggest challenge for the British gentry till 1903 was how to move up to the hills during summer. Shimla, the summer retreat had no connection with the world outside, and only a mountain trail connected it to the plains of North India. The locals hardly moved out...
by Shimla Walks | Jul 24, 2018 | General News, Himalayan Trips, HIstory, News and Deals, Uncategorized
In 1870 Mr. W. H. Carey mentioned in his Simla Guide that Simla drives its name from a house called ‘Shyamelay,’ built by a fakir – a sage, on the slopes of Jakhoo hill. The hills people also pronounced it probably as ‘Shimlah,’ or ‘Shumlah’ Originally, the village...
