This morning (though I’m still writing this a day late) I woke late, walked down to the vehicle to recharge my iPhone, then tried to walk back up in time for breakfast delivered to my room. The steep hill defeated me! Breakfast came anyway, so bounteously that I packed toast and a boiled egg for eating while on the journey! I was then accompanied to St Thomas’ School in time to plan for a conference with Mrs Chakravarty the Principal, and one of the teachers, and then give a climate change presentation to 9th and 10th Standard students.
The conference sounds very interesting. It will be St Thomas’ contribution to Shimla’s sesquicentenary, to be held in late May this year, and will have an ecological theme based on indigenous spirituality. The form of words I suggested, “Celebrating and Sustaining Shimla”, may be part of the conference’s title, along of course with some Hindi words. There will be a morning session at St Thomas’s for school students from schools both in Shimla and CNI schools from all around Amritsar Diocese, and an afternoon session which will be open air, on The Ridge, near Christ Church Cathedral. This will take the form of a festival, with many contributors invited to set up stalls, and opportunities for discussion.
I then had a very pleasant lunch with Mrs Chakravarty and her friend Dr Meenakshi Paul, Professor of English Literature at Himachal Pradesh University Centre for Evening Studies, Shimla. “Meenu” promised to inv its me to a conference of Indian and Australian literature she is organising for the end of this month, which sounds very interesting. We then took a walk through the Mall, “Vidhu” sent me on a tour of the Viceroy’s Lodge, and her staff brought the Scorpio to me and led me to National Highway 88. From there it was a 7 hour drive back to Manali, uneventful except for a hold up on a short cut caused by an accident which necessitated some off road driving! I went to bed, exhausted once more!
The conference sounds very interesting. It will be St Thomas’ contribution to Shimla’s sesquicentenary, to be held in late May this year, and will have an ecological theme based on indigenous spirituality. The form of words I suggested, “Celebrating and Sustaining Shimla”, may be part of the conference’s title, along of course with some Hindi words. There will be a morning session at St Thomas’s for school students from schools both in Shimla and CNI schools from all around Amritsar Diocese, and an afternoon session which will be open air, on The Ridge, near Christ Church Cathedral. This will take the form of a festival, with many contributors invited to set up stalls, and opportunities for discussion.
I then had a very pleasant lunch with Mrs Chakravarty and her friend Dr Meenakshi Paul, Professor of English Literature at Himachal Pradesh University Centre for Evening Studies, Shimla. “Meenu” promised to inv its me to a conference of Indian and Australian literature she is organising for the end of this month, which sounds very interesting. We then took a walk through the Mall, “Vidhu” sent me on a tour of the Viceroy’s Lodge, and her staff brought the Scorpio to me and led me to National Highway 88. From there it was a 7 hour drive back to Manali, uneventful except for a hold up on a short cut caused by an accident which necessitated some off road driving! I went to bed, exhausted once more!
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