Crookety House

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“Another prominent European inhabitant of Kalimpong is the celebrated Russian tibetologist Dr. G.N. Roerich. He travelled across wide areas of Central Asia in the company of his father, a famous painter who captured the magnificence of the Tibetan landscape in a series of unique pictures. Amongst other languages, Dr. Roerich speaks fluent Tibetan, Mongolian and even Sanskrit, the language in which the books of Ancient India are written. He lives with his mother in a delightfully situated house. I was often a guest at this house, where I discussed with my ever helpful fellow anthropologist over countless cups of tea, and often far into the night the many still unsolved problems of Tibet.”

[Nebesky-Wojkowitz, René von. 1957a. Where the Gods Are Mountains: Three Years among the People of the Himalayas. Translated by Michael Bullock. New York: Reynal and Company, 79]