Throughout our travels in the Darjeeling/Gangtok/Kalimpong areas we were on roads built and maintained by the Border Roads Organization. This is probably an army or a partially-army organization..clearly, the discipline was visible everywhere. Most of the roads were in good condition, and where the condition was bad, because of landslips, it was ( Read more... )

The Himalayas...any Indian who has not seen this awesome sight MUST try to see it sometime....every time it awes and humbles one completely. How can one be petty after seeing the sight of the beautiful, majestic peaks ( Read more... )

Looking forward very much to the trip to Kolkata, scene of my childhood, and then Darjeeling and Gangtok...will write in my impressions of how things have changed in the last 28 years since I traversed that path last ( Read more... )