In 1984, Shimla’s Cecil Hotel closed for renovations. In the mid-1990s, just short of the hotel’s reopening, I was commissioned to assist in developing materials that would help market it.

Born to a modestly wealthy family in 1898 in Bhaun village in Punjab province of Pakistan, his father worked as a front desk clerk at The Cecil (now The Oberoi Cecil), a small hotel in Shimla.

Shimla, Oct 31 (PTI) An octogenarian British woman was found dead in a hotel here, police said Wednesday.Alford Elizabeth, 80, was found dead in a room of the Cecil Oberoi hotel on Tuesday evening, Su ...