Most people associated with the festival—whether it’s the hospitality partners, travel coordinators, and volunteers—share a family history of over 100 years in Nainital.
The Nainital littering incident shows that many tourists can’t manage the simple act of putting their rubbish where it belongs. Their trash is a signature that reads—‘tourists were here’
At the 2024 festival, several speakers emphasised the need to preserve the mountain system, stressing that the key to this is passing down knowledge and traditions through generations.
Although the Supreme Court has stayed the Uttarakhand High Court order for a plan to shift the court out of Nainital, it has revived insecurities that led to the state’s formation in 2000.
General MM Naravane’s memoir—Four Stars of Destiny—reveals that he was left hanging by political leadership for more than two hours as Chinese tanks drove towards Indian positions.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
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