Indu will never be out of a job as our translator. Our best efforts at learning Hindi might be thwarted by the short time we’ve allotted ourselves at the Landour Language school in Mussoorie. Located in Uttarakhand in northern India, it sits at 6500 feet; the altitude often pressing our lungs flat as we trudge up the hill to our class. Our wee attempt to sort out ‘kaise from kaisa, aapka from aapki, and kyaa from kahan’ and then make a sentence out of our new-found vocabulary