Qualified Tourism Professional from Delhi University.
Writer.
Published Author.
Painter.
Trekker.
Appeared in many Travel Shows on Star News and Fox History.The best appearance is in the program called ‘It Happens Only in India’ on Fox History Channel, telling the story of Barog tunnel.The program was on air in February 2010.
Sumit has a vast store of knowledge of Shimla.He started working here as a Heritage Tour Guide in 2000 and has Studied in detail the Origin & History of this British Himalayan Town.This 190 years old town was entirely set up by British Officers.They arrived here in 1815 and decided to use it as a Summer Capital of British Empire in future.Interestingly my clients are those British who come to see the old houses built by their parents and Grand Parents.Many of them were born, grew up and studied here.Sumit maintains most of the records available of Shimla that helps him finding the Old Houses, Churches, Cemeteries where their forefathers are buried, Nursing Homes where they were born, Records of the Churches where they were Baptized, The roads on which they walked and the offices they worked in.