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About On The Hills

The posters on the café door, in one place.

Gigs, workshops, hikes, markets and retreats across India's hill towns, in one list you can read on your phone. A person checks every listing before it goes live.

Coming up on On The Hills. Tap a poster to open it.

Why we started

In the hills, the good stuff gets announced on a poster taped to a café door, an Instagram story that's gone by tomorrow, or a WhatsApp group nobody added you to. Walk past the wrong door and you'd never know it happened.

We started with four towns along the Dhauladhar range: McLeodganj, Dharamkot, Dharamshala and Bir. Today we list events in 23 hill towns, from Kargil to Ziro, and 416 listings have gone up so far. The job hasn't changed. Find what's on, check it, and put it where you can see it, town by town.

How a listing gets here

Software does the typing. A person does the checking.

  1. 1

    A host sends the poster

    On WhatsApp or through a short form. A phone photo of the printed poster is fine.

  2. Date
    Read
    Time
    Read
    Venue
    Not sure
    Price
    Read
    2

    Software reads it

    It pulls out the date, time, venue and price, and flags anything it can't read with confidence.

  3. Checked against the poster
    3

    A person checks it

    Every field, against the poster. If the date or the address is unclear, we hold it back rather than guess. Somebody might walk up a hill for this.

  4. 200 Hours Yoga Teacher Training CourseMcLeodganj RSVP
    4

    It goes live

    With its own page and share image. Tap RSVP and WhatsApp opens with a message to the host, ready to send.

What you can count on

Hill towns only

No metros, no plains. Cities have plenty of event apps. We'd rather know the difference between Dharamkot and Dharamshala.

No app, no login

Browse, share and RSVP from your phone's browser. Nothing to install, no account to make.

Free to list

Listing an event costs nothing. When a host sells tickets here, the fees are on our pricing page, and the host picks who pays them.

Running something in the hills?

Send us the poster on WhatsApp or fill in a short form. It's free, and a person checks it before it goes live.

Spotted a wrong date?

Or know something we should list? Tell us and we'll look into it.