Dehradun, July 7 -- The Art Press owner Pramode Sawhney's Collection

Choose any weekend to walk in Landour-Mussoorie, the combined stink of roasted chicken, burnt cordite, and smoking clutch plates is guaranteed to ruin your day.

A stranger accosted me. He sidles up to me to ask if I live here.

'Yes!' said I hurriedly, in the manner of a reluctant bridegroom, I nod my head to say: 'Yes I do!'

'Are there always so many tourists?'

'Yes!' I admit. 'It's worse on weekends,' I snap, hoping he will move on. But he doesn't, and careens on, 'Know somewhere I can start a Korean-eatery?'

Come to think of it, 'Kimchi' is the only thing missing in a hill station crawling with tourists.

How to escape? I wonder.

'It's worse than Chandni Chowk!'...