Dehradun, June 15 -- The author.

By: Ganesh Saili

Walk down the narrow strip of Landour bazaar and you will find buildings huddled together. They seem to lean on each other as if for comfort. While some of our younger ones grow up to leave for distant shores, take a peek inside some of the shops to find many, many like me who stayed on. We are but slaves to destiny.

Our first businessman was a certain Mr. Lawrence, who set up the first shop in 1829 on Camel's Back Road to sell household goods. A year later, the German Mr. Bohle started our first brewery to slake parched throats, and we seem to have never looked back.

On a walk through Landour bazaar, Fanny Parkes found, 'Everything is to be had. From patee foie gras, truffles, shola h...