Monthly Archives: November 2008

On the Kufri-Mashobra Trail

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Another of those long weekends peeked around the corner and there was no way we’d let it go waste. We decided on Kufri, and maybe Shimla, although the latter wasn’t an exciting prospect as it has been done to death. Of course it went without saying that we’d drive up in our Spark. So before break of day (at about 4.30 a.m.) on Aug 14, we were off on NH 24 while Delhi was just waking. As soon as we …

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On the Kufri-Mashobra Trail – 2

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Woke up on Independence Day 2008 in Kufri. We’d decided to leave after breakfast so we got dressed quickly and descended to the restaurant. There was a lot of activity going on as the resort was being decorated for the evening celebrations. We chose a place by the window overlooking the valley from where the view was awesome. There was just one other occupant in that hall tucking into his breakfast. Soon we got talking and came to know that …

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Go Goa-2004 (Day 1)

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For Deepa it was a second coming. She’d stayed there for a couple of years when my father-in-law (an army doctor) was posted there. For me – one who had never seen any water-body bigger than the Brahmaputra river (which is by no means small), it was restless anticipation. I had heard much about it, but the fact that 40 hours hence I would be a part of it was a feeling that can’t be described. However the trip didn’t …

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