Voyage Vedas

  Festivities of my Childhood :- I remember during my childhood, festivals were community affairs. People used to gather together and enjoy as a community. Unlike these days, when people are just smitten to their own family members during festivals, back then the whole mohalla used to gather together and celebrate festivals. Actually my first remembrance of a festival is of Holi . At that point of time we were in Mysore (now known as Mysuru). I remember we used to visit my father's colleagues (and friends). Actually we were 3-4 North-Indian families, and everybody visited everyone's place on Holi . When we moved to Dehradun that was the time when I came to know how festivals are celebrated in a community. Holi : We had a playground in front of our house in Dehradun. This was the place where everyone used to gather and celebrate festivals. As a kid I remember we used to volunteer for collecting " Chanda " (a kind of crowd fund") from everyone in the mohalla , to

  The Samosa Bet :- As I remember I was in Class VI th, we had just started moving in group of boys, play and have fun to the hilt. That was the time when kids and children were not afraid to move out of their homes (sometime to out of bound places as well). Parents were equally relaxed as crime against children was seldom heard in the mountain town of Dehradun. We lived in Indra Nagar, Dehradun at that point of time. Indra Nagar was a well planned and developing residential colony, coming up in the then outskirts of Dehradun. Population was scarce. People still feared coming to these outskirts at late evenings. Streets were deserted after dusk. Slowly people had started building individual homes. There were a few residential complexes that had been erected by various government entities. There was also a settlement of I.T.B.P (Indo-Tibetan Border Police), a para-military force. But few patches of Indra Nagar Colony were still devoid of any settlement, which included a patch which had

Camping at Three Cliffs Bay - Part6 : 6 and 7th September 2014, Until now you read how we started our Camping Trip and Reached Swansea (read  here ), then how after a long detour, we finally reached our Camping Ground at Three Cliffs Bay (read  here ), then later how we reached the beach, trekked up the mountain to reach the top of Three Cliffs and returned back to the Camping ground by late evening (read  here ), then cooked our dinner over fire, chit-chatted about "Ghosts & Haunting Stories", had dinner and went to bed. Woke up to start the day in a manner as we had always dreamt of ever since childhood- "A day starting in lush green farmlands surrounded by meadows" (read  here ). Finally dismantled our Tents and trek towards the Three Cliffs Bay, so as to pass through the Tunnel structure formed under the The Three Cliffs and later enjoy to the hilt in the sea (read here ). After we all reunited, we started to ascend the hill. This time we took the shorter pa

Camping at Three Cliffs Bay - Part5 : 6 and 7th September 2014, Until now you read how we started our Camping Trip and Reached Swansea (read  here ), then how after a long detour, we finally reached our Camping Ground at Three Cliffs Bay (read  here ), then later how we reached the beach, trekked up the mountain to reach the top of Three Cliffs and returned back to the Camping ground by late evening (read  here ), then cooked our dinner over fire, chit-chatted about "Ghosts & Haunting Stories", had dinner and went to bed. Woke up to start the day in a manner as we had always dreamt of ever since childhood- "A day starting in lush green farmlands surrounded by meadows" (read here ). After returning from the woods, we quickly dismantled our Tents and packed everything in our rucksacks. My Jack Wolfskin rucksack was stuffed and fully packed with our clothing, quilt, utensils, sleeping mats etc. Everything was properly packed within the rucksack or fastened on the