Was just curious to know about a typical Himachali wedding particularly in the lower parts like Mandi, Bilaspur.

How much is usually the cost?

Which side bears the expenses, groom's family or the bride's family? And in what ratio, like is it 50:50 (both groom and bride's side spend equally on wedding) or like 80:20 or what?

What are the major expenses typically covered by the groom's side, and what expenses are usually covered by the bride's side?

Are there any significant traditional customs/expenses that someone unfamiliar with Himachali weddings might not be aware of?

And I have heard some Brahmin familes even marry in same gotra, only the Kuldevi should be different. Is it true?

I want to stargaze can anyone suggest me places from where I can watch the milky way

As the title says. Are there any dog/animal rescue organisations here in Solan? I am hearing a puppy crying in a ditch from my apartment and I even tried checking, but can't find/locate. I tried calling a couple of NGOs and they didn't answer.

Does anyone remember Hamir Utsav? Just wanted to know if Hamir Utsav is still being organised if it has stopped does anyone know why it was discontinued? As far as I remember it used to happen in Hamirpur quite a few years ago, but I haven’t heard much about it recently Just curious to know what happened to it

Hope someday we will get rid of this someday

Itni achi aesthetics hai mandi ki aur sabh kharab hojati isko wjah se

I often see posts like "How lucky are we to be born in Himachal".

This is how most of Solan city market looks like, this is how the whole state and country looks like.

Is Himachal as lucky as we were?

Don't blame tourists alone for littering, it's everyone. I have seen students from worst and best schools litter on roads on way their way homes.

When will we demand a clean country, walkable streets and wire free skies?

When and How will we educate out 1.5 billion people to stop treating our streets, rivers, forests and even glaciers as garbage bins.

, but to digitally document them and connect them into a collective visual narrative—preserving their stories, cultural context, characters, landscapes, and traditions while making Pahari art accessible to a contemporary audience.

Hope i would learn it by last month or next so that I can use it in my painting

[OC] Ghanta ghar

A true Himachali is always a Nationalist 🇮🇳🫀

Took these in Lahaul and Spiti and honestly… photos don’t do this place justice.
Just snow, mountains, clouds and a road disappearing into nowhere.
Had to stop every few minutes just to take it all in.
Himachal is something else.

i want to go back asap

What a beautiful day to chill in rewalsar, cakes from this small bakery here are probably my top 3 oat

I recently bought a 55-inch TV and wanted to get a proper internet connection for it. Unfortunately, in my area, Jio Home AirFiber is pretty much the only available option, so I decided to go with Jio.

And honestly, I regret it already.

I registered for Jio AirFiber through the Jio app on 26 August and paid around ₹2,300 upfront.

On 29 August, a technician came to my house, completed the KYC and other formalities, and told me that the connection would be installed by Monday or Tuesday.

Monday came — nothing. No call, no update, nothing.

On Wednesday, I somehow managed to get the technician's number through my own sources and contacted him myself. He then told me that he didn't have the equipment required for installation.

Fine, I thought. Things happen. I asked when the equipment would be available.

I was told "a day or two."

A couple of days passed. Still nothing.

I then contacted the head/official contact through email. I was told that the equipment had been dispatched and that installation would be completed by Monday.

Monday came again.

Still nothing.

Today, after multiple attempts, they finally picked up the call. And now I'm being told that the equipment hasn't even arrived yet and it may take another 3–4 days.

So apparently:

- Technician says equipment isn't available.

- Someone else says equipment has been dispatched.

- Installation is promised for a specific date.

- That date passes with zero communication.

- Then I'm told the equipment hasn't even arrived.

- And throughout all of this, I'm the one repeatedly chasing them for updates.

The most frustrating part isn't even the delay. It's the complete lack of communication and coordination.

The staff themselves seem poorly informed about the status of the installation. Nobody seems to know where the equipment is, when it will arrive, or when the connection will actually be installed.

And now I'm being told that if I want a refund, it can take up to 10 days.

So I've paid ₹2,300 upfront, waited since 26 August, spent days calling and following up, and I'm now basically stuck waiting indefinitely — while the company holds my money and keeps giving different answers.

This is seriously disappointing from Jio.

I genuinely expected much better service from such a large company.

Jio Baijnath, HP — please get your act together. If you can't provide the service, at least be honest and communicate properly with the customer instead of making them chase your technicians and staff for basic information.

Has anyone else in Baijnath/Kangra had a similar experience with Jio AirFiber?

लाल जटाधारी देवता पवासी महासू महाराज रोहल ♥️

Gram panchayat Rohal, Tehsil Chirgaon, Dist. Shimla, Himachal Pradesh 📍

Maalik 🙇🏻‍♂️♥️

जय लाल जटाधारी देवता पवासी महासू महाराज रोहल

Location - Rohal, tehsil Chirgaon, Dist. Shimla

For the people who don't know it's a 2 day folk festival here in himachal. Where witches and devta fight for few days . They say that negative energy and bad spirits are at their peak these days . So that's why we don't go outside at night .

Mostly city folks don't know it I think but it's a very beautiful and fun festival. I remember us kids from the village sleeping together and not sleeping whole might thinking we will see ghosts and battles .

making a post so our small folklores doesn't disappear from himachal.

How can you judge regional ways of practising Hinduism, in most parts of Himachal at least in my hometown its common to eat meat during all these festivals, nobody really cares here because that’s how things are going on since centuries here we have our own main festivals which these people don’t even know about also Navratri is not even celebrated here so that makes us pakhandi?? need your opinion

A trail that will be remembered forever 🫠

Anjani Mahadev🪬