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The Queen of Hill Stations
If you have read some of Anglo-Indian author Ruskin Bond's writings on Mussoorie, on the threshold of the Himalayas, you may already be familiar with this captivating hill station.
Visit Mussoorie and one discovers that even as this town bustles and evolves into the favourite weekend haunt of Dilliwallahs, it is a place packed with nostalgia. And a bit of melancholy.
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Darjeeling has been lovingly dubbed the Queen of Hill Stations, with Ooty, Mahabaleshwar, Manali, Darjeeling and Shimla all courageously laying stake to the same title.
But, Mussoorie probably deserves the title most. She is like an ageing dowager queen who has lost much of her majesty. As you ramble through the Mall, Camel's Back road, Kulri, Gun Hill, Sister's Bazaar and on to Landau climbing up and down the hillside, past cottages, estates, mansions, British cemeteries, antique shops, a clock tower, the Picture Palace, library, churches and magnificent palaces, you can imagine how Mussoorie sparkled in her youth. She has had a good life.
Text and Photographs: Vaihayasi Pande Daniel
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