The vanilla-brownie hills of Himachal
October 12th 2008 The snow on the distant mountains has melted. It was a picture post-card at noon when we checked into the hotel by the narrow Beas River in New Manali. Now the mountains look as if sprinkled with bleaching powder. Tomorrow we would discover that snow is neither like bleaching powder nor like cotton pieces hung around the crib on Christmas Eve.
Only two categories of tourists seem to ascend to K
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