Written by
Simar Preet Kaur

Simar grew up in Noida under the shadow of Kashmir Himalayas, as she claims. She moved to Mumbai while Noida was still a sedate outpost and began a long stint in the dramatic media world discovering the joy of sending pages to print. She worked as the editor of an in-flight travel magazine called JetWings for several years, managing to squeeze in an 18-month break as well to wander around the mountains of India, Nepal and Bhutan. She has since been published in a number of magazines including National Geographic Traveler and COLORS. Two years ago she packed up her Mumbai home and shifted to Himachal Pradesh, where she now lives amidst postcards, deodars, sugary chai and morning conversations with a blue whistling thrush. She’s currently writing fictions set in the Himalayas. Her mission in life — besides dodging smart phones and ultracrepidarians — is to learn many languages at once. At the moment she’s surrounded by Kulwi, Urdu and Ladakhi.