Siddharth Pandey
@shimlasiddharth
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Writer, academic, photographer-curator & musician from the Himachal Himalayas, India. Instagram@shimlasiddharthpandey
Shimla, Delhi-NCR
Joined May 2025
A monsoon resplendence, plucked out of myth. A grammar of grace & green, gilded by brown & blue. Evening peacocks, somewhere in Gujarat.
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Pleased to have my latest academic publication in this first ever handbook on globalisation and 'dis:connectivity', the latter being a term espoused and engendered by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Munich, where I have been a fellow. A
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"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.". - Gaston Bachelard. Shimla houses.
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As mist finds its way along the crests and troughs of Shimla hills. June 2025, #Shimla #HimachalPradesh #misty #mountains
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A favourite S(h)imla building, in the ongoing hydrangea season. The Punjab Circuit House, also known as Cedar House, opposite the official home of Himachal's CM, Oakover. In Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Black' (2005), this features as the lovely 'Windsong' cottage. #Shimla
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Hello! I am pleased to release my first music album for my Youtube channel ‘Flow’, in honour of my brilliant writer-friend Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane ). The five tunes here have been floating and forming in my mind for quite a few years now, all anchored in my love for
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A nun makes her way from Dharamkot to McLeodganj on a drizzly day, while the recently blossomed hydrangeas bear witness amidst old stone-walls & older cedar-verticals. Kangra Valley, Himachal.
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Sarus, sarson (mustard), serenity ~. A late winter, early spring scene. Rait (maternal ancestral village), Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh. #himachal #sarus #mustard #foothills #kangravalley
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Spotting a hoopoe after many years, up in the foliaged-folds of the Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh. As earthly as a winged being can get, its zebraed body and coiffed crown boast of a confidence that is entirely its own. A creature that seems as much chiseled out of wood as
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Delighted to have this 2700-word visual essay out: my first full-length prose piece in the genre of writing about nature and landscape, commissioned by the excellent people at the Geneva-based ‘Dark N Light’ platform.
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Honoured & delighted to interview my great friend & mentor @RobGMacfarlane for The Tribune (video-link below). Also privileged to be cited in his book, that became the favourite line of Rob's audiobook producer at Penguin London, who gift him this bespoke t-shirt. What joy!
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The Dhauladhar Himalayas, Rait (maternal ancestral village in the Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India).
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