“DULQUER GREETED ME!” I wrote to my friend, after I noticed a life-size cutout of the actor, with a thumbs-up sign, smiling at me. After years of planning, cancelling, and planning again, I had finally made it to his home state! And my destination was Thekkady, the spice capital of Kerala.
It was midday when I reached Kumily, a town near Thekkady. After the three-hour flight from Delhi to Kochi and a four-hour drive, I couldn’t wait to reach my home
