Rampur’s Lavi Fair: Storytelling through 300 years of Himalayan trade and tradition
What Disneyland is to children today, Lavi Fair in Rampur Bushahr, in Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla district, was to my family in the 1980s. I recall wandering through the fair as an eight-year-old, watching an old man smoking a chillum beside heaps of black sheep fleece and stacks of white woollen pattus (traditional garments of Kinnaur…
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