A road trip along the Western Ghats
It was around the same time (June-July) as present that we had set out on a road trip in 2007 to Malshej Ghat, nestled in the Western Ghat range of Maharashtra. The rains had just set in and the landscape was still an arid brown and a parched yellow, the lushness of the green yet to follow. Malshej Ghat is located some 130 km from Pune and approximately 160 km from Mumbai. Since we were in Mumbai, it made sense for us to travel from Mumbai. Instead, here comes the twist – we made the trip from Pune. And there is a beautiful story behind that. Love. Or Lou, as they say in Mumbai. Those days we were young and carefree youngsters on our first corporate jobs, ready to fall in love at a second’s notice. That happened with two of my colleagues from different offices – Mumbai and Pune. They had met at an off-site in Goa and hit it off quite well. Now, the girl M and the guy A could not have enough of each other through phone calls. M was not allowed by her parents to travel to...