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You should go to this stadium, B. I really wanna go. I haven't been back there since it's been built.
And once you've watched cricket in the Himalayan town with the Dalai Lama's govt in exile, you'll probably realise the error of your ways, drop your Tory materialism, shave your head, wear orange and go round with a begging bowl as you commune with the Divine.
Though you could then go to Manali or the Parvati Valley on the other sides of the state and do it the Hindu way instead. Dreadlocks, not skinhead. Saffron not orange. And smoke chillums non-stop so you get to the higher spiritual planes without as much of the hard work.
Chillum make me Shiva and all that.
Language, basically. There would be no real problem between Hindus and Buddhists under normal circs - Buddha is the 10th incarnation of Vishnu, after all.
But when the Tamils were forced to speak Sinhalese, they got the hump and started blowing things up, including poor old Rajiv.
But it's the lingo - think Belgium but with a much better understanding of the Divine and more bombs.
It's actually at the bottom of the hill in McCleod Ganj, so it's only about 1,100m above sea level. Not like the Tibetan Plateau's that's over 3.5k.
Would the ball move faster through the air cos it's thinner?
I really don't know why the money-obsessed BBCI doesn't play a couple of extra tests there at the end of May, just before monsoon breaks. Climate's ideal, like an English summer's day.