SERENITY ON THE SLOPE
The pandemic has made SHIKHA TRIPATHI discover obscure destinations within driving distance of her home town, Nainital, with two unlikely travel companions: her parents. A road trip to Chalnichina in Uttarakhand holds a mountain of revelations for the family, about the place and one another.
A PLATE OF SWEETMEATS is doing the rounds, and when it stops at me, I struggle to choose between and . “You can have both,” says Shivraj Singh merrily, but I don’t want to overstep his wife’s hospitality. I go for the leafwrapped goodness of the regional milk sweet, , and down it with a glass of crisp spring water, as cool to the throat as the sight of the balmy Himalayas is to my eyes. My parents make a healthier choice—a piece of jaggery to go with
