आंजभोज: सिरमौर की पहाड़ियों में बसा एक अनसुना संसार
हिमाचल प्रदेश के सिरमौर जिले की पहाड़ियों में कई ऐसे क्षेत्र बसे हुए हैं, जिनकी खूबसूरती तो अद्भुत है, लेकिन जिनके बारे में देश-दुनिया को बहुत…
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Daily stories from every corner of Himachal Pradesh.
The Great Himalayan National Park: A UNESCO Site Ten Years On
A decade after UNESCO recognition, the Great Himalayan National Park remains one of the least-disturbed high-altitude ecosystems in the western Himalaya — and a rare conservation…
Chamba Rumal: Embroidery With No Wrong Side
Chamba's court needlework was designed to be identical on both faces of the cloth — a demanding technique now kept alive by a small number of…
Y.S. Parmar: The Lawyer Who Built a State From Twenty-Six Pieces
Himachal Pradesh did not exist as a single political unit before 1948. It took a Sirmaur-born lawyer, and more than two decades of patient assembly, to…
Jwalamukhi: The Temple With No Idol, Only Flame
One of India's most visited Shakti Peethas venerates no statue and no image — only a set of natural gas flames that have burned, by tradition,…
The American Who Planted Himachal’s First Apple Orchard
Samuel Evans Stokes arrived in Kotgarh as a missionary, stayed as a convert to Gandhian politics and Hinduism, and along the way started the orchard economy…
Kangra Painting: The Valley That Put Colour to Poetry
Under royal patronage in the 18th century, Kangra's court painters turned devotional poetry into some of the most delicate miniature art the Himalayan hills ever produced.
Malana: The Village With Its Own Language and Its Own Law
Tucked in a side valley above Kullu, Malana maintains a distinct language, a self-governing council, and customs of separation from outsiders older than the tourist trail…
The Kalka–Shimla Railway: A UNESCO Line Through the Foothills
A century-old narrow-gauge line still climbs 96 kilometres and more than a hundred tunnels from the plains to Shimla — not as a museum piece, but…
The Snow Leopards of Spiti: A Cold Desert’s Quiet Comeback
Spiti's bare, high-altitude terrain makes it one of the more reliable places on Earth to see a snow leopard in the wild — and a case…