The Summer of '22 and Many Others
The Summer of 2022 was not an ordinary summer break for me. It was an adventure from one roller coaster ride to another and the most remarkable was the trip I made with my students to Karnataka. Though I was visiting the same places for a third time as the accompanying faculty; to be honest, each visit was equally exciting and refreshing to me. But this trip was extra special as I could share it with my son who was my tour partner this time. I wanted to take my daughter too but she respectfully passed. The little girl had her holiday schedule carefully chalked out and didn't want any unwarranted last minute disruption to her grand plan of taming three stray kittens and making them her pets. It seemed even more adventurous than climbing the Himalayas, let alone the jeep trekking at Chikkamagaluru as she had to evade the hawk eyes of her grandma who stalked around like a born terminator to all living creatures on Earth, canine, feline, fowl or fish. By ...