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When Sir Walter Lawrence, Indian Civil Service Officer, was leaving Shimla for England for good, Lord Curzon congratulated him, saying that “I congratulate you heartily on one thing - on leaving Simla so soon. How I hate the place!” Why did he hate the place when he remained Viceroy for the longest term after that of Lord Dalhousie and had to be a regular summer-bird of Shimla because it was India’s summer capital? Curzon liked Kolkata better than Shimla because the winding roads here would snatch the privilege of having the long drives that he relished there. When, in the evenings, he would go in horse in Shimla, he found the same hat-raising officials whose faces he had seen during the office hours. So boring! Dennis Kincaid in’’British Social Life in India” writes about Curzon that after touring various parts of India, “He would return to Simla as though to an office after a holiday and shut himself up with interminable files...He sat almost all day and half the night, the

The festival of Durga Puja has a cult of its own in Kolkata. It draws all kinds of crowd from far and wide. The City of Joy turns into a joy-filled heaven when the season for ‘pujo’ sets in. The beauty of the festival lies not only in the arrival of the Goddess along with her divine retinue and her ceremonial worships, but also the paraphernalia that has got attached to the festival over the decades. And, hands down, Kolkata is one of the best places to experience puja in its all festive spins. So with this in mind, we picked the top Durga Puja experiences or things to do in Kolkata during Durga Puja that every Bong knows and a non-Bengali in the city can look forward to. After all, why should Bengalis have all the fun? Experience the Mahalaya Mahalaya indicates the onset of auspicious Devi Paksha, which sets the stage for the oncoming 5-day of festivities. Get up before day break to witness the priests and devotees invoking the Goddess with Vedic incantations and rites at d

"GOLF MAY NOT MAKE US ALL GENTLEMEN BUT IT CERTAINELY CAN HELP TO IDENTIFY ONE " The Naldehra Golf Club Himachal Pradesh has always been one of the most popular tourist's destinations in the country, offering a wide range of activities for the sports lover. Its beautiful and challenging hills have attracted trekkers from all over the world. Whether it is river rafting or parasailing, Himachal has always been a place to be in for the sport lover. And Himachal has also kept up with the pace of the changing times and adapted itself to new upcoming sports such as golf. Actually the story of Golf in Himachal started 100 years ago. History: NAL Deo the local deity has been the custodian of this verdant pasture for over a thousand years. As the legend goes, cows grazing in the pasture used to collect at noon near the present site of temple and automatically start milching. One day a TURI (Singing Bard) was passing by when he saw a wild fowl sitting on a tree, h