Simla
Britishnoun
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Soon after India suspended the IWT, Pakistan threatened to suspend a 1972 peace treaty called the Simla Agreement, which established the Line of Control, or de facto border between the countries.
From BBC ● May 13, 2025
The mathematician Gilbert Walker knew “next to nothing” about weather when, in 1904, he took charge of the India Meteorological Department in Simla.
From Nature ● Sep. 16, 2019
Some storm chasers went off to another spot around the Nebraska-Kansas border, but Mr. Faidley had “a good gut feeling” that the tornadoes would come down in Simla instead, Mr. Gatelli said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 22, 2015
Kipling who wrote about the romances that ensued in his Plain Tales from the Hills described Simla as having "one of the most unhealthy moral atmospheres in Asia".
From BBC ● May 8, 2010
As if this weren’t enough, the next morning, a taxi bound for Howrah Station crammed its wheels into the alley; the Dalals were going to Simla for ten days.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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