Over the Hills Eunice de’Sousa’s review of S.Sharma’s “The Hilly Billy” brought back evocative memories of my two year sojourn in Sultan’s Battery Wynad – a semi hill station on the periphery of the Blue Mountain Ranges. Away from the crowded cities one savors the fresh mountain air before returning back to the noisy towns where people stare, ogle and shove each other. Mussoorie the hill station described in the book is the ideal destination for holidays, honeymoons and for unwinding. If you have the soul for adventure you can dive headlong into a phantasmagorical experience. Howling winds, icy mountain lakes, wafting mists greet you in this mythic terrain. Mussoorie was built by the British colonists to escape the arid heat of the plains ad has it own distinctive culture. Anybody who has lived in the mountains will tell you that the mountains harbor dark secrets stored in the deep recesses of caves located in the subterranean depths. Darjeeling the capitol is a potent cosmopolitan mix of Scottish tea planters, English headmasters and missionaries rubbing shoulders with Tibetan refugees whose children with apple hued cheeks play gleefully away from their lost homeland – it’s a philosophical terrain that throbs with existential and moral questions.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:17:42 +0000
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