Apple cider of your eyes

A healthy cocktail of affordability and good taste, apple cider is fast becoming the most sought after gift, says Saurabh Malik Cheers! Apple Cider is adding more than just fizz to the lives of so many connoisseurs. The invigorating golden elixir, low on bitterness and high on flavour, is also raising the spirits of so many gift-givers in the state. It may hit you like a strong drink, but the angels’ own nectar is fast attaining the status of most-sought-after gift among Bacchus devotees.

—Photo by S. Chandan

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Like father, like son
Many sons have outshone the halo their fathers wore. A few doubles are Jawaharlal and Motilal, Amitabh and Harivanshrai, Hrithik and Rakesh, the list can go on and on. Shimla had witnessed the luminescence of such a father-son duo in Joseph Rudyard Kipling and John Lockwood Kipling in the late nineteenth century.