HimVani :: Voice of Himachal

Dhano, Hero No 1 have no one to carry on their backs!

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 rocked on the tunes of Cyanide

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 [...]

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Rock Rules!!

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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The Shimla tragedy: Missing theatre, missing drama

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 [...]

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A Korean Munnai Bhai demands Jadoo ki Jhappi in Shimla

By: Shikha Patial

Shimla: This South Korean boy inviting people to get his FREE HUG was quite an attraction on the scandal Point at the Mall Road on Saturday.

Surprisingly, most of the people reacted very sportingly to this and welcomed his free hug. Many people, especially young boys and girls strolling on the Mall on Saturday [...]

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When in Himachal, spare a Saturday evening for Shimla’s Mall Road

By: Shikha Patial
Shimla: There’s something amazingly special about Saturdays on the Shimla Mall Road. The century old Mall Road buzzes extraordinarily on Saturdays with the ensemble of city’s entire young crowd. It wasn’t always the same; Saturdays were no different from any other day, but gradually in the past few years every Saturday on the [...]

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Branding Himachal: Nescafe takesover chai shacks

By: Saroj Thakur

Two Nescafe kiosks have come at strategic points at the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur - one near the Manimahesh Boys’ Hostel, where it caters to the cravings of the big boys of the Institute; and the other at the entrance to the main Administrative Block where most of the students have their [...]

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