By: Eesha Duggal
I keep wondering how do horses (any animal) feel when we humans sit on them. Do they like it or they feel irritated? How would I feel, if someone sits on my back? But I think I still have to wonder, till the time I don’t learn to communicate with them.

As the sun [...]

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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh government has finally adopted the ‘Himachal Pradesh Home Stay Scheme-2008’ with a view to involve the entire state in tourism promotion activities. The scheme was specially designed to give boost to rural tourism by offering various incentives to the prospective entrepreneurs which include, no charges by Town and Country Planning Department [...]

By: Eesha Duggal
I could for long feel thunder in my ears after a rock concert that was held in Shimla last Sunday night. Under Pubrock fest, Delhi based alternative rock band Cyanide performed at Ritz Complex on The Ridge. The concert started after 9 p.m. but practice was going on before that also.

Music was in [...]

By: Eesha Duggal
It was about 2 years ago when The Mall Road in Himachal’s capital Shimla, used to be clouded with guys wearing tee-shirts with their favorite wrestler’s’ image on. Needless to mention we all love to love our favorites and look like them, propagate and follow them. I think wrestling became quite popular that [...]

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Nurpur: While the government machinery has for quite some time been tutoring the farming community, especially those with small land holdings, to diversify into cash crops to get better returns, some of those who took the advice seriously are today finding themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Recently, over 100 silk cocoon producers-cum-farmers from Nurpur, [...]

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Baddi: Concerned over non-compliance of environment safety norms in the Baddi-Barotiwala industrial belt, the Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board has now served notices to at least 15 units for spreading pollution by burning rice husk in industrial boilers. They have been asked to switch over to  fuels like furnace oil, diesel or petrol for all [...]

By: Geetali Tare
The drama is not dead but liveth, and contains the germs of better things.
- WILLIAM ARCHER, About the Theatre
I love Shimla. Though not by birth, I consider myself an honorary Himachali. I claim this by virtue of having been able to visit this state over two dozen times in the past 15 [...]

By: Sanjeev Verma
Administration is the backbone of any organisation and employees carrying out the day-to-day functions play a pivotal role in making the organisation a success. But, if the so-called ‘Babu Badshahs’ working in a particular organization or department are least concerned about their duties and responsibilities, it can at best be described as doomed.
The [...]

By: Eesha Duggal
Shimla is indeed not just about the Mall Road, the Ridge, Kufri, etc. Away from the concrete jungles of the city are some beautiful places that can certainly take your breath away. It’s not just about the places, but particularly about the boulevards, the alleys where only a few feet tread through. So [...]

By: Eesha Duggal
Living and growing up in Shimla  feels like being Mogli of Jungle Book sometimes. Born in the building, somewhere, in the jungles, then playing in the woods, climbing every possible tree, running at the site of monkeys, building a temporary house of ‘ghaas-phoos’, being friends with every stray dog around, doing crazy stuff [...]