Kalimpong as Tibet’s Penumbra: Shangri-la, Lhasa, Delhi and Beijing
My interest in writing the hook-ups between the Chinese, Tibetan and Indian towns/cities was to map out the exchanges— politico-historical as well as socio-cultural— between them. Setting up my theodolite, taking measurements as it were, Kalimpong the border town offered a unique vantage point in the eastern Himalayas…



