AS THE PANDEMIC’S deadly second wave receded last year, travel started inching back into our lives. In September 2021, I got an invitation from the Ministry of Tourism to rendezvous with an all-women group that was making a weekend pit stop in Delhi on their 12,300-kilometre-long road journey across the country. The group was scheduled to do a food tour of Chandni Chowk.
On a sunny Sunday morning, we assembled outside Jama Masjid’s Gate no. 5