Blissfully off-grid

A laidback vacation in Pangot and Kilbury is the perfect antidote to the perils of city life

After the heat and dust of Delhi, the woods high up in the Himalayas seem lovelier, darker and deeper. Wildflowers pop their heads from amidst grassy knolls. A cool breeze picks up, and I watch an oak leaf lazily fall to the ground. This summer idyll is interrupted by a distant voice shouting hello. "Hello…" the hills echo back. The hellos go back and forth for a while, and I clamber down the hillside to see what's happening. A largish group of people is standing on the roadside, waving their arms about and shouting hello. "This is, what we call