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Figure 3: Mira Behn in India, spinning on a wooden spinning wheel
menial and challenging chores, such as cleaning of village latrines, mud-thatched huts, and
village streets. Many admired the enthusiasm of "this highborn Englishwoman whose true
Christian humility enables her to do the scavenging work usually performed only by
'untouchables."',58 Observing her extraordinary devotion, Gandhi stated that while everyone at
the ashram were trying to become villagers, they fell far behind, except Mira Behn, who was the
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Nanda Devi: Vision or Reality?
Bill Aitken
Is Nanda Devi more than a mountain? The answer is 'yes' if you are brought up to believe in her as a local hill deity and 'no' if you are unalive to the religio-cultural associations of Uttarakhand. If you are an explorer like Shipton looking for wonder then this mountain emphatically offers an extra dimension but if you are a technical climber like Roskelley concerned primarily with reaching the summit it remains just another peak. Most of us fall somewhere between these two schools and allow that the special mystique of Nanda glimpsed by Shipton is the sum of her outer buggial yields a fabulous darshan of Nanda Devi's soaring profile. By Sunday night you are conveniently back in Delhi.
One thing is certain: what you find will depend a lot on your motivation for going. If you approach with the imaginative faculties alive, the chances are they will respond to a beauty that soars beyond the mineral confines. If on the other hand, all