Tucked into the western edge of Dehradun district, bordering Himachal Pradesh, sits a region that operates by a noticeably different...
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Garhwali cooking shares plenty of DNA with its Kumaoni neighbor — the same reliance on hill-hardy lentils and millets, the...
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In April 1973, a group of villagers in Mandal, a small settlement in what's now Chamoli district, stopped a logging...
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Ask most people outside Uttarakhand to name a Kumaoni dish and you'll likely get silence, or maybe a guess at...
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In 2009, UNESCO added something called "Ramman" to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. Most...
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The word "Garhwal" itself is a giveaway if you know what to listen for. It comes from "garh," meaning fort,...
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Kausani doesn't have Nainital's lake or Mussoorie's colonial-era sprawl or Auli's ski infrastructure. What it has, and what's built its...
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Nainital's entire identity, its layout, its economy, and honestly its very existence as a significant town, traces back to a...
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There's a specific image that anyone who's spent time in a Kumaoni household will recognize instantly: a doorstep or a...
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Mussoorie has carried the nickname "Queen of the Hills" for so long that it's easy to forget it's a title,...
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