manebhanjang was surely not a visual treat. But simple ways of doing things touched hearts. The way our inn keeper's daughter served food and liquor with folded hands as if we were family; and that did score. the way we were greeted with "khadas"; silk scarves draped around neck. the way a boy was inflating a land rover tyre with a bicycle pump!!! Land rovers are WW-II vintage jeeps, the only vehicles plying from Manebhanjang to Phalut. The only complicated thing was the GL- gorkhaland number plates on land rovers and all other vehicles. These plates underscored a defiant mood in the hills. Gorkha land for others might be a political joke but for these people it was a cause to live for. (won't say die for)
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