I’m in Landour, a tiny hamlet just outside Mussoorie in the foothills of the Himalayas. It’s so beautiful here – to try and embellish that description seems almost pointless. It’s just so beautiful. I’m surrounded by mountains, forests and sky. All is still. I go to school for three classes a day (I feel my brain expanding in order to accommodate so much new knowledge – it feels good), I’m fed three times a day, I have an occasional bucket shower and I sleep at night under two heavy blankets. Life is simple, purposeful; I love it. I feel the quiet, the shanti, inside myself and perhaps it’s this that makes regular writing feel less necessary. I still have things to say – thoughts accumulated over the last six or seven weeks – but I’ll get to them when the compulsion returns, which it will.
And in the meantime I’ll just be here, myself, living in the mountains.
Partial Truths 
Kumar Digvijay said,
June 14, 2008 at 2:46 pm
It was heartening to know that you were in LLS. I lived in ITM, Mussorie for about a month and when my classes used to get over, I would walk to Char Dukan to eat Maggie noodles. Although there is no good food to eat at shops around Char Dukan,, the serenity of environment made me feel better. I loved the peace and especially the mist which would surround that place. When I would walk down, I would see students sitting in front of school and learning/practicing Hindi. Sometime I would ponder over the fact that is it really worth coming all the way from homeland to learn a language. But I guess it was more than just learning a language. As you pointed out that you felt your brain expanding for accomodating more knowledge, it comes out as one of the reason which makes it worth. Where did u stayed in Landour and how u used to go to attend classes? Was it by hiring/renting a cab/taxi?
michele occhipinti said,
September 21, 2008 at 11:24 am
hello, I’m about to leave italy for the third time and fly to India, but this time i’ll be studying at the LLS in mussorie, does any of you have a guesthouse or so to recommend? I’ll be there in the winter months and I would really love to find a room not too far from the school…
thanks michele