Darjeeling - The Mountains and the people and the Train

Only in Darjeeling

Only in Darjeeling...

• A statue was beheaded
• A train gets caught in a traffic jam
• Mann-mann mai love mann-mann mai break
• You find a female beauty parlor named Gladiator Beauty Parlour
• Mohammad Iqubal Khan and Ram Krishna Narayan are the best friends
• Teacher recites Ramayan and Mahabharata stories during Maths period
• People go to buy laangshyaa and end up watching carrom for hours
• Beggars have the most amazing names: Shyam Thapa, Mandakini, Pele, Tyson, Anil Kapoor
• You walk through the town once, and meet the same people ten times
• The last place to find coolies is at the railway station
• Can you jump off a train...take a leak… and catch the train again...
• The prettiest girls always elope with a taxi or a truck driver
• People prefer to play barefoot over wearing boot when playing soccer
• Do you find distance in Kilometres and places in Miles....Cha mile, Dus mile, Baarah mile, Biis mile
• People sit in dense fog and watch an entire soccer match, not knowing what the hell is going on in the field
• The best dishes on the menu in any restaurant are thukpa and momo
• Do you go to sleep with a bottle of hot water for warmth in winter....and wake up in the morning and 'daant moluus" with the same water
• You can ask for a portion of newspaper from the fellow co-shitter who shit’s right beside you and share some Hum Jayega jokes during the entire performance
• You ask for khaini from a person sitting next to you while enjoying a porno movie… only to realize that it’s your 7th grade teacher when the movie is done.
• You are updated with every local news, local love stories, elopes and true loves, latest songs and gossips in a single trip from Darjeeling to Siliguri.