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3rd Instalment Refugium Kalimpong*. – The town in the Himalayas clings tightly to the slopes like a survivor on a cliff. Kalimpong has grown, crawling and creeping across all the rocks and ravines into the far-off folds of the landscape. Nonetheless, it feels cheerful in a small-town sort of way, and charming. Kalimpong is my Indian refuge. I always breathe a sigh of relief when I move into my room, which Indira Bose, my landlady, built for me. To one side of her house with its numerous occupants, hidden away, protected from people’s gaze by an incline on one side …