Anjenie’s love story is what romance novellas are made of.
A Gujarati from Mumbai, she met the man of her dreams when she was in her 20s at the Standard Grand skating rink near the cantonment town of Landour in the early 1960s. Prem Dutt Bijalwan, a strapping mountain man, was the ice skating champ. Love blossomed and culminated in marriage in the face of stiff parental opposition. Even after 60 years, Anjenie’s eyes well up when she remembers the days gone by.
“They say love marriages don’t last, mine did,” says Anjenie. “Every day, we worked together shoulder to shoulder. And we were so happy.”
Her earliest memories of Landour, about 35km from Dehradun, are vivid and every moment tied to her late husband. “The Landour military cantonment was such a beautiful place,” recalls Anjenie. “The streets and drains were clean, everything was spic and span. It was a sleepy hamlet where everyone knew everyone.”
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