I have driven past Kangra Fort dozens of times on the road to Gaggal airport, and for years I filed it away as scenery. The day I finally climbed it, I understood what I had been ignoring. Even before I reached the entrance, the massive stone walls rising along the edge of that rocky hill […]
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The first time a Kangra painting really stopped me, I was leaning in close enough to fog the glass over a small Radha and Krishna miniature in the Kangra Art Museum. You don’t realise from photos how tiny and detailed the work is. A whole grove of trees, a bend in the river, the fold
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In this world, there are places which inherently feel silent and peaceful. And then there are places where silence is practiced, shaped and protected. The monasteries of Dharamshala belong to the second kind. Set against the cedar forests of Himachal Pradesh and watched over by the Dhauladhar range, the monasteries of Dharamshala are not relics
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