India, This Side

THIS is with reference to the article “Museum of Himalayan cultures” (September 23). Being a regular reader of Frontline and also being an old guy from the hills, I was eager to see what information it had. The organisation called Himloka that the author said he had set up is either no longer in existence or known only to a very few people.

Similarly, the museum he set up at Keylong (this is the spelling and not

Kyelong as was used in the article) with the help of a bureaucrat has not met its expectations.

The author said that Lahaul (with reference only to Keylong, of course) remained inaccessible in winter. This is no longer the case. Nowadays, it is accessible through the year because of the nine-kilometre-long Atal Tunnel built by the Border Roads Organisation at an altitude of 10,040 feet.

Further, the caption given for the photograph accompanying the article was incorrect as the people in it are not from Keylong (Lahaul and Spiti district) but from Kinnaur district.

BALRAM DAWARA, HIMACHAL PRADESH