Shimla - a watershed city
September 10th 2017 Three things I didn’t know about Shimla a week ago.
It is the administrative capital of Himachal Pradesh and, although originally “devised for an anticipated peak population of 45,000, at the most 60,000”, its metropolitan area now contains nearly 300,000 people. This is no sleepy remnant of a colonial past but a bustling, busy place.
The ridge on which it sits forms a watershed between th
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