What’s three-inches long, shaped like a cigar, and made of condensed milk? The lollipops of Kalimpong in West Bengal, which have become a popular souvenir, synonymous with this hill station, and well known not only in India but in neighboring countries such as Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. The origins of “Kalimpong lollipops” trace back decades to a Swiss Jesuit. In the 1950s, Father Andreas Butty, then 35, was a missionary attempting to spread Christianity in Tibet. But when he was denied entry and stopped at a pass near Kalimpong, he…
