Himalayas Quotes
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As snow-jobs go, this beats the Himalayas.
Boris Johnson— "The BBC was doing its job - bring back Gilligan", Daily Telegraph, 29 January 2004, p. 21.
— Reaction to the Hutton Report.
Spread across seven hills in the northwest Himalayas among lush valleys and forests of oak, rhododendron and pine is the capital of Himachal Pradesh that was once the summer capital of colonial India. And today, there is still more than a hint of the Raj in the former hill station of Shimla.
— Peter Aronson and Yésica del Moral, in Shimla: India’s Queen of Hills, Skyward, the JAL Inflight Magazine, February 2010.
Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.
— Romain Rolland, Life of Ramakrishna (1929)
The city is a unique combination of hills, spurs and valleys to the North and East; a network ofmountain ranges which are crossed at a distance, by a magnificent crescent of new peaks, the mountains of Kullu and Spiti in North, the central range of the Eastern Himalayas in the east and South east. Shimla town occupies a unique place in the history of the Indian sub-continent. Emerging as a nostalgic reminder of their country, for the British officers, posted in the region, the town went on to occupy the centre stage during the hey days of the Raj .
— Planning Department, in District Human Development Report Shimla, National Informatics Center, Shimla, p.7
