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"Welcom" to Savoy
In the Queen of Hills
This Welcomgroup property is steeped in history and culinary traditions. The Savoy, Mussoorie is all about creating memories while journeying through its fabled past. A monument in itself!
Text & Photographs: Farzana Contractor
I was darn lucky to have managed to squeeze in a holiday, just before the country-wide lockdown was imposed on March 24,
To be specific, I was onboard my return flight home, post holiday, merely four days before the lockdown and after the first case of COVID had just been detected in Dehradun from where I had taken my flight back. Yup, my family I and were returning all masked up, but in an exalted state, refreshed and rejuvenated from a peaceful stay, first on the banks of the Ganges and later a charming short stay at Welcomhotel, The Savoy Mussoorie.
I am quite certain were it not for this timely holiday, I would have had withdrawal symptoms these past eight months and ended up suffering from wanderlust!
End of Feb, beginning of March is a period locked up in my dairy for my annual ski trip to Gulmarg. As it happened this year, no thanks to the abrogation of J&K, travelling to Kashmir was out. But the strong lure of the Himalayas took me to Rishikesh, to a friend's be
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Nehru
S.J. Perelman, arguably the funniest writer delightful the Twentieth century, was already pretty laughable as a commuter pupil at Browned University. Wear he was called already the player for a January string in The Brown Ewer. He locked away disparaged picture college importance a “fraternity-ridden and lethargical academy order middle-class boosters.”
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A Decade of Indian Politics
Edwin Samuel Montagu laboured like a mountain and produced the Montford reforms. He, like everybody else, knew that Diarchy died the day it was born, though the post mortem examination was carried on for nearly ten years, till Coroner Simon delivered the verdict that death was due to natural causes. But between them Chelmsford who was all vague and blue about the reforms, and Montagu who had the manners of a Hebrew conjurer, rallied and organised the Moderates, who in their turn discarded Morley and adopted Montagu as their latest hero. Lord Reading with his shrewdness touched these Moderate leaders of public opinion and turned them into shapes of statesmen; they crowded into the Councils and became Ministers, Executive Councilors, and members of minor commissions. The Congress, however, stuck to Gandhi and his experiments with truth; and it was not until C. R. Das made a bold bid for power and divided the Congress at Gaya that the Swarajists entered the legislatures. The death of C. R. Das in the summer of was a first-rate national tragedy, for he had charmed his country-men by his dash and animation, his soulful idealism, and his ruthless self-sacrifices. His patriotism was highly poetic and heroic, and his brilliant record as leader is yet unb