History breathes on the winding roads of Shimla, where Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru 60 years ago confabulated with Lord Mountbatten to work out details of independence from the British. And it was also in Shimla in 1972 that India and Pakistan sat across the table, 25 years after they attained nationhood, to discuss the dynamics of their future relationship after fighting a war.In the heart of the town is the imposing and stately Christ Church looming into the thin mountain air. This landmark monument remains the most photographed building till date.
It was another time in another age that Rudyard Kipling wrote his poem "The Plea of the Simla Dancers"; and then penned these lines about the town he spent every summer in from 1885-1888:
"My month's leave at Simla, or whatever Hill Station my people went to, was pure joy - every golden hour counted. It began in heat and discomfort, by rail and road. It ended in the cool evening, with a wood fire in one's bedroom, and next morn - thirty more of them ahead! The early cup of tea, the Mother who brought it in, and the long talks of us all together again."
It was another time in another age that Rudyard Kipling wrote his poem "The Plea of the Simla Dancers"; and then penned these lines about the town he spent every summer in from 1885-1888:
"My month's leave at Simla, or whatever Hill Station my people went to, was pure joy - every golden hour counted. It began in heat and discomfort, by rail and road. It ended in the cool evening, with a wood fire in one's bedroom, and next morn - thirty more of them ahead! The early cup of tea, the Mother who brought it in, and the long talks of us all together again."
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