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A brilliant work which perfectly captures the thrill and intrigue of espionage and adventure in the high Himalaya. Almost all of the Himalaya had been mapped by the time the Great Game-in which the British and Russian Empires fought for control of Central and Southern Asia-reached its zenith in the latter half of the 19th century. Only Tibet remained unknown and unexplored, zealously guarded and closed off to everyone. Britain sent a number of...

For a few years in the early 1990s-at a time when the embers of a violent agitation for Gorkhaland were slowly dying down-Parimal Bhattacharya taught at the Government College in Darjeeling. No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight is a memory of his time in the iconic town, and one of the finest works of Indian non-fiction in recent years. Parimal evocatively describes his arrival, through drizzle and impenetrable fog, at a place that was at odds w...