Shimla, I love you for your-
Little lanes and roads. Winding, meandering, rambling, zigzagging to no-place-in-particular
Houses, ramshackle, rickety, tumble-down, rinky-dink ones. Haughty, sumptuous, lofty ones.
Spectacular sunsets: lilac, russet, sylvan, caramel, chartreuse.
People: poet, painter, author, mother, dreamer, healer. Each one of you teaches so much.
Walking: a joy and a luxury not available in most other towns in India.
Summer storms which bring drama thunder and lightning right outside your window.
Beryl, cerulean, cobalt, indigo, sapphire skies.
Early-morning birdsong. Bulbuls, orioles, thrushes, magpies, parakeets, owls, kites, babblers, tits.
Minerva. Munshiram. Kahanchand. Gaindamull's. Bhuttico. Trishul.
Annadale. Sheogh woods. Dhanu Devta. Glen.
Flowers, wild & domestic: gazania, potentilla, wisteria, fuchsia, orchid, columbine, clematis, daisy.
Viceregal Lodge. Yarrows. Gorton Castle. Railway Board Building. GPO. Town Hall. Gaiety. Christ Church.
Mehroo. Sher-E-Punjab. Balji’s. Sol Café. Sitaram. The late, lamented Barista.
Clouds. Ashen. Iron. Peppery. Pearly. Silvery. Smoky. Somber. Blithe. Puffy. Light.
Trees: cedar, pine, oak, poplar, dogwood, rose tree.
Thank you, God, for giving me Shimla.
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11 comments:
Hmmm, never realized there were so many reasons to fall in love with the town. :P
Hmmm, I didn't have to look for reasons to love Shimla! I just do.
It is a lovely place. I wouldn't mind staying there for a while - a week wasn't really enough.
Never found such a lovely description and love for a place and description so wonderful that one can experience everything about the place before even visiting it. Just great.
Thanks.
Shimla Mall-The place to be
brilliant! only someone in love can express true passion. you made me walk on cloud ...and linger on with every smell and sight of the place i once lived in and loved.
“The woods were lovely, dark, and deep, but unfortunately I had a job to keep, and numerous targets to achieve before i make my way back to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are preety.”
Wow what a great blog about the great city,you made me walk on NH22 of Nostalgia taking me to the place where i was born, lived and had spent some of the best times of my life...
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kind words. I have never loved a placequite like the way I love Shimla. Glad this feeling resonated with you.
Though one does not really has to count reasons to love a place like Simla, I too been loving this place for the same reasons and many more.and mind you I ceased to live there in 1947!!!But yes, the city lives in me. Such is its charisma. For the same reason love your posts and hope not to be deprived. Does it really matter so much whether you kive in there or not. (who knows, they might transfer you back again.) so please go on posting.
Thank you, Jamil, for your very kind words. I have many many more photographs and memories of Shimla to share. But my self-imposed period of mourning is not yet over. I promise to start posting again, when that happens...
very beautifully written about shimla, highly impressive, keep going the same way!!!
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