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My Himalayan Summer Odyssey by Raakhee Suryaprakash To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live. - Hans Christian Andersen The first time I took a flight was the summer before I turned twenty. I flew to New Delhi from Chennai that May and after a Himalayan tryst flew back a fortnight later. Nowadays flying has become commonplace that teenagers are blasé about taking multiple and longhaul flights. Yet, at the turn
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of the millennium, it still was a big thrill. And I was fortunate to forever associate my first flight with ‘Summer and Travel’.That summer I flew escaping the scorching Chennai heat [Agni Nakshatram – peak summer] for a Himalayan Odyssey. My mother and I met up with her former roommate, Dr. Chanda, and her son at the nation’s capital and then took off on a multimodal journey along the tourist trail in the Himalayan APRIL 2019