The Hill Cart Road

In recent time the concept of reading of Books or articles on different subjects has changed significantly now books are available with classified titles to meet specific requirement of the individual. Here simply by seeing the title of this Book as “The Hill Cart Road” many of us may categories it as a “Guide Book” for the tourists to visit Darjeeling but actually it is not of that kind it is a “Collection of personal Letters” describing different moments of living and visiting places in Darjeeling and adjacent areas more than twenty four years from now. The author of this book had written many letters to his only daughter Durga to describe different moments of her childhood days of staying and visiting different places in the country. Long Back the author of the book worked for a West Bengal Housing Board (Establishment under Government West Bengal) with his place of posting at Siliguri then it was in Darjeeling District. At that time his daughter was about four years old and occasionally she had been at Siliguri Town. During that period she visited different nearby places along with her parents. In this book there are total twenty letters to describe some memorable moments of their staying in a small Apartments located just by the side of well known “Hill Cart Road” which was leading to famous tourist destination ‘Darjeeling’. Little girl Durga learnt many things through close her observation and also simply by interaction with her parents and others. Those days she enjoyed then new environments and the natural beauty of the surroundings there. This book is all about those feelings and experiences of living in Darjeeling and visiting the nearby places in a very long past