When she married him in 1940 her presents included a Bentley, a hill-station house and a trousseau that was left for collection at the Ritz in Paris.

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In the picture-pretty hill station of Coonoor in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, 51-year-old Indira is busy making the signature dishes of her community, the Badagas.

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The drive from K.L., which takes only about an hour, winds along beautiful verdant valleys as you make your way up to the green-swathed former hill station.

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From Box Hill, the closest train station is four miles away in Dorking, with hour-long trains back to London Waterloo and Victoria.

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Take the Teufelsberg eavesdropping station, a ghostly hi-tech cathedral of the cold war, perched on a hill-top in western Berlin.

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