Dehradun, Oct. 26 -- Internet.

For years, I have grappled with this conundrum. It defies an easy solution. Where in Mussoorie did Maharaja Duleep Singh spend two summers of his life in 1852 and 1853? Was it Whytbank Castle? Or could it have been Castle Hill Estate? This has been the proverbial monkey on my back. Looking across the gorge from our home, the outlines of a house atop a hill appear, though veiled by a frieze of deodar trees. Although Landour teems with legal and illegal structures, coupled with an overabundance of human beings, this place remains seemingly untouched by human hands. For the past hundred years, Castle Hill and its hundred and eighty-two acres have existed cheek-by-jowl with Landour's bustling lanes, with not an...