Darjeeling

Darjeeling is a small town (hill station?) in the North eastern part of India with the state of Sikkim on the North, Bhutan on the East and Nepal in the west. It is part of the state of West Bengal and has a population of around 130000. It was once known as the Queen of the Hills and used to be a summer paradise for the British and a sanotorium for ailing British soldiers. As the town grows older it is choking underneath the pressure of over population, pollution and trourism.

I look at old monochrome photgraphs of Darjeeling and wonder how it used to be back then. everything looked so big and wide and so beautiful. Now I can harldy recognize some of the places shown in the photographs. There is too much happening in this small town and it is bursting at its seams. No place to expand, so what do we do, we build more high risers in an earthquake prone area....