The panoramic mountain valley of Kullu has always been a land of curiosity, for its deity-culture, strange local traditions or drug menace—the infamous ‘Malana Cream’. Dev Kanya Thakur, a 41-year-old Kullu native who has lived through these traditions at home, seems to have emerged a young voice, creatively hitting out at local practices that she finds bizarre in the present-day context and cultural transition. The women, for example, in Kullu are still struggling to find their equitable place with men. Their phenomenal rise in the society, notwithstanding, women and girls still have no excess to deity-rituals that are performed by men or upper-caste people.