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Women are defying odds and becoming successful in every field today. If we talk about 2017, women in unconventional careers won’t surprise you. But what if we told you that Himachal Pradesh’s first woman transporter and petrol pump owner started her business way back in 1978? We are talking about Nirmal Sethi, who says she is the only woman to become an Indian Oil dealer in north India.

With its winding cobbled lane, mud-plastered walls and slate-roofed heritage houses, this village offers what most destinations can only dream of promising -- a return, if briefly, to the simple life of an erstwhile era.